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From: jkelly@cvbnet@prime.com (Jim Kelly {x6171})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Time Management Tool
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:48:01 GMT
Organization: Computervision, A Prime Computer Company, Bedford, MA, USA


      I am looking for a versatile, realiable time management tool that can
      be configured to incoporate our corporate labor tracking standards and
      practices. We currently use Open Windows 3.0 Calendar Manager (cm) to
      track/schedule all our departments meetings. The next step is to track
      our time in terms of projects as well as interuptions and unscheduled
      events. The end products would be weekly and monthly reports as well
      as the information to back up late projects, etc... 


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| Jim Kelly                            ||  Computervision Corporation          |
| Pricipal Software Engineer           ||  201 Burlington Road                 |
| jkelly@cvbnet.prime.com              ||  Bedford, MA 01730                   |
| (617) 275-1800 x6171                 ||                                      |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: ohrd!mgrabish@cs.toronto.edu (Miles Grabish)
Subject: SUNVISION 1.2 Makeframe Question
Keywords: SUNVISION make_movie makeframe movie SunVoxel
Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:27:47 GMT


In order to help make movie frames with Sun Voxel, a program is provided
with SUNVISION that will allow you to render SunVoxel displays
automatically.  The name of this program is 'makeframe` and is in the
$SUNVISION/examples/volumes/make_movie directory.  When I copy the
source and make file into my directory and try to build 'makeframe' I
get the following error;


cc -g -I/usr/openwin/include -I/home2/sunvision_1.2/include -o makeframe makeframe.o -L/home2/sunvision_1.2/lib -lpmgr -lsvmisc -ltask -lsvmath -lm
ld: Undefined symbol 
   _bindtextdomain 
   _dgettext 
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `makeframe'



Does anybody have any ideas how I can fix this?

I am running SUNVISION 1.2 on SUNOS 4.1.2 on a SPARC 2 GS.


Thank you,  Miles Grabish




Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jrawles@leland.Stanford.EDU (jody rawles)
Subject: Spell checker for Mailtool ?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 01:23:03 GMT

Does anyone know of a spell checker that would correct or atleast
highlight spelling errors in mailtool?

Sorry if this is in FAQ.  If it is, just tell me where to get FAQ.

Thanks,
-- 
Jody M. Rawles					
Department of Psychiatry 		email: jrawles@leland.stanford.edu
Stanford University School of Medicine	voice: (415) 858-3914
Stanford, CA 94305 USA			fax:   (415) 493-4901
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: gusset@ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset)
Subject: Re: vt100 emulator?
Reply-To: gusset@ntb.ch
Organization: Neu-Technikum Buchs, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:42:00 GMT

In article 25346@ugle.unit.no, halvard@trd.sdata.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
>In article <1992Aug5.192848.9450@tinman.mke.ab.com>, tdphette@tinman (Thad Phetteplace x4461) writes:
>|> rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
>|> > Is there a vt100 emulator for the Suns?
>|> 
>|> If you are running OpenWindows, try xterm.  You can find it in the demo
>|> subdirectory under $OPENWINHOME.
>
>also - SunLink TE320 from Sun. costs $$$ and runs under OpenWindows.
>(VT320-terminal)
>

There is also a tool called vttool. It is a vt102 Emulator and runs under OpenWindows and SunView. It is possible to define your own buttons (PF1..PF4) as buttons you can click using the mouse.
This PD is avaiable on different ftp hosts - one is nic.switch.ch /software/sources

>|> 
>|> If you are running SunView, the only thing I've seen is te100.  This is
>|> available from Sun as a purchased product or is sometimes bundled with
>|> packages in their SunLink product line.
>|> 
>|> Hope this helps.
>|>  
>|> --
>|> Thad Phetteplace
>|> Network Support Specialist, Allen-Bradley Co.
>|> Phone: (414)382-4461
>|> Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com
>|> 
>|> The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer...
>|> bla, bla, bla, eat some paste! (steven)
>|> 
>
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>
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From: jonwd@uwtc.washington.edu (Jon Wiederspan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Gain's Hypermedia product for Sun
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:56:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug20.195610.16575
Organization: Technical Japanese Program
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

I just finished looking at the demo of HyperLook (was HyperNeWS, I
think).  I've been
using HyperCard and SuperCard for years, but I would dump them in a
minute for
this.  If SuperCard could implement all of these features (are you
listening Bill?)
it would become what HyperCard always hoped (and claimed) to be; the
development
environment for the rest of us.

Demos are available from:
ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9)   graphics/NeWS/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z
turing.com (192.133.90.28 -- SLOW link)  pub/HyperLook1.5-runtime.tar.Z
uesama.tjp.washington.edu (128.95.202.40)  
pub/Sun_Software/HyperLook/<all files>

The last site includes a demo of SimCity written in HyperLook.  VERY
impressive!
(also very large).

>Xref: news.u.washington.edu comp.windows.misc:2399
comp.sys.sun.apps:1631 
>comp.sys.mac.hypercard:8738
>Path:
news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!shrike!aihaug
>From: aihaug@austin.lockheed.com (Daniel A Haug)
>Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
>Subject: Gain's Hypermedia product for Sun
>Message-ID: <1152@shrike.com>
>Date: 18 Aug 92 15:06:11 GMT
>Article-I.D.: shrike.1152
>Sender: news@austin.lockheed.com
>Followup-To: comp.windows.misc
>Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX
78744"
>Lines: 26
>Nntp-Posting-Host: kestrel
>
>
>I saw a demo of a system developed by Gain Technology.  The
>product is called Gain Momemtum.  I would probably best describe
>it as a sophisticated Hypercard environment for Unix workstations
>(e.g. SPARCs).  I've been told that Sun's Answerbook is built on
>their product, and that they (Gain Tech) are now a wholly-owned
>subsidiary of Sybase. I'm in the market for such a product, (user
>interface prototyping, hypertext, multimedia support, running on a Sun).
>However, their package price of about $150K is way out of my league.
>Are there some similar packages already available (e.g. Hypercard like
>capability for the Sun under X-windows)?  Anything for free?  Anything
>under 10K/license?  I'm not interested in GUI builders, as I already
>have those.  Has anyone worked with Gain's product, and can offer an
>honest evaluation?
>
>Please respond by email, as I have cross-posted.  I'll submit a summary
>if there is interest.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>dan haug
>
>-- 
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Research Consultant - Software Design
Technical Japanese Program      PHN: (206) 543-7610
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: background/foreground colors
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:53:33 GMT
Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY

In article <1992Aug18.033357.9923@fcom.cc.utah.edu> bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353) writes:
>   Does anyone know how to JUST get cmdtool to change colors?

alias cmdtool 'cmdtool -fg yellow -bg black'

--
Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
Subject: Re: background/foreground colors
Reply-To: bryant@ced.utah.edu
Organization: Center for Engineering Design
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:15:43 GMT

In article 7504@samba.oit.unc.edu, cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62679) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug18.033357.9923@fcom.cc.utah.edu> bryant@ced.utah.edu writes:
>>:I give up! After an hour and a half I cannot get cmdtool to set my background
>>:to black and my foreground to yellow. I want this to be through my .Xdefaults
>>:file, not the command line.
>>
>>:Does anyone know how to JUST get cmdtool to change colors?
>>:
>>:I tried the obvious,
>>:
>>:   cmdtool.window.color.background: black
>>:   cmdtool.window.color.foreground: yellow
>>
>
>
>OK, you've tried the hard way, now try the easy way:
>
>1) in your current (wrong color) cmdtool type:
>
>cmdtool -bg black -fg yellow &
>
>2) now quit the cmdtool that has the wrong color scheme.
>3) if you have customized your openwin-menu file add the "-bg black 
>   -fg yellow" to your cmdtool statrup line.
>4) SAVEWORKSPACE!!! - this puts the color info in the right place.  
>
>Or, if you don't like this approach, edit your .openwin-init file to 
>look like this:
>
>toolwait cmdtool -Wp 387 0 -Ws 593 869 -WP 161 833 -Wi -fg yellow -bg black 
>
>

It seems that a number of people misunderstood the question. I believe
that I mentioned NOT wanting to use command-line arguments because there
is no CONSISTENT way to have them work. The problem is that if I use
an alias, then ".openwin-menu" lines have problems (C Shell vs Bourne
Shell) causing me to have to keep TWO FILES consistent:

  1) .openwin-menu  - for when I use a menu.
  2) alias file - for when I type it on the command line.

This also requires modifying files for EVERY USER OF THE SYSTEM individually,
since we do not (I don't think you can) share common sections of
an Openwindows Menu configuration file.

This is not acceptable. The way that applications should get defaults is
through the RESOURCE SYSTEM. This is the "standard" way. If the application
fails to use it then it is BROKEN and should be FIXED. Considering that
there are so many applications (XTerm for one) that DO work the right
way, it doesn't seem a hard thing to ask.

I have also not heard any responses on why changing the window foreground color
should change menu text, while changing the background color does NOT change
the menu background. According to this, if I execute:

    cmdtool -bg black -fg gray

I get a very nice black-background gray-text command tool, but with completely
WORTHLESS INVISIBLE MENU ITEMS! Try it!

Bryant Eastham
Programmer/System Administrator
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
bryant@ced.utah.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Subject: mailtool reading .forward, why?
Originator: berg@tabaqui
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 15:46:13 GMT

I noticed that mailtool (under OW v2 and OW v3) opens and reads the
$HOME/.forward file, what does it do with this information?

Anyone who can shed some light on this matter?
-- 
Sincerely,                                  berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).    berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de

"Good moaning!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: johnm@meaddata.com (John Manley)
Subject: Re: Changing default options for ASCII filter under NeWSprint2.0 rev C
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:11:46 GMT

Chalk one up for SUN support:

> Hi John,
> 
> 
> I wanted to let you know what I found out about your service order.
> You have 2 choices:
> 
> 1) You can create an alias for lpr that will incorporate the
>    pl command you would like to execute. For instance:
> 
> add the following line to your users' .login file:
> 
> alias lpr1 '<newsprint>/bin/pl \!* :postprint -r1'
> 
> then the user will type:
> 
> lpr1 /etc/printcap
> 
> and the aliase will be executed and the file will be ran through pl.
> 
> 2) Edit the "default" file in the <newsprint>/pl.sun{3,4}/C/ascii
>    directory to incorporate the pl command. The "defaults" file
>    in the ascii directory looks like:
> 
> postprint.2ps
> 
> simply change it to:
> 
> postprint.2ps -r1
> David G. Gant			|
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.		|
> North American Solution Center  |
> MS MTV7-04			|
> 2550 Garcia Avenue		|
> Mountain View, Ca. 94043-1100	|

In article <1992Aug13.205430.29954@meaddata.com>, johnm@meaddata.com (John Manley) writes:
|> After converting some of our LaserWriters from Transcript to NP2.0, we
|> discovered that ^M chars were handled differently. Using the command line:
|> 	pl <ascii file> :postprint -r1
|> ...we were able to revert back to the expected output. In order to make the
|> conversion transparent to our users, I'd like to be able to change the
|> default on the "server side" so the command line option isn't needed.
|> I've tried several hacks to no avail...hardcoding the option in the "lpd_
|> script"...adding the option to the .param file in the spool directory...etc...
|> 
|> Any other suggestions would be appreciated!
|> 
|> -- 
-- 
|John Manley         |  BEARS  BULLS  BLACKHAWKS   |      (513) 865-1152   
|Mead Data Central   |   IRISH BOILERS CHISOX      |  Engineering Productivity
|P.O. Box 933        |                             |     johnm@meaddata.com
|Dayton, Ohio  45401 |        Questions?           |  ...!uunet!meaddata!johnm
From: cush@glockenspiel.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Cush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Is there any good wordprocessing software available on Sparc
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:56:40 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science

In article <1992Aug14.191151.18015@menudo.uh.edu> hsingh@Turing.chem.uh.edu (Harpreet Singh) writes:
>
>As the title says, I want a wordprocessing similar to 
>MS-word, MacWrite etc on the sun running openwindows
>

Yes, I would recommend Framemaker.  It is true what you see is what you get 
(WYSIWYG).    You can contact Devra Learner at 408-428-6106.


Others include:  Island Write, Paint, and Draw
	         Contact:  Katheryn Cook
			   1-800-255-4499
			   1-415-491-100
		 Wordperfect
		 Contact:  ??
			   1-801-222-5300


-- Mike

        mcush@colsun.central.sun.com
	cush@cis.ohio-state.edu
From: cnbs63@uk.ac.strath.ccsun ("J.T.Bennett", Electronic Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: SUNVISION 1.0 under OpenWindows 3.0
Summary: SUNVISION 1.0 does not work under OW 3.0
Keywords: SUNVISION
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:02:33 GMT
Reply-To: cnbs63@uk.ac.strath.ccsun
Organization: Strathclyde University Sun Workstations.

I have recently upgraded our IPC from OW 2.0 to OW 3.0 so that I might run SunPHIGS 2.0. However, someone is still using SUNVISION 1.0 which ran under OW 2.0. Now, when he runs any of the SUNVISION software, the message :

Waiting for database program to start 

is printed continously and nothing else happens. Does anyone have a clue on how to rectify this problem - I can possibly get hold of SUNVISION 1.2 if it will help.

Thank you for your attention !

Jeremy Bennett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: tsa@efi.sintef.no (Tor Sannes)
Subject: Wanted: C++ 3.0 compiler for SunOS 4.1.1
Organization: SINTEF EFI
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 06:07:33 GMT

We have some source code running under Borlands TurboC which we wants to also
use on the Sun SPARC platform.

At the moment, Sun does not supply a compiler supporting C++ version 3.0 from 
AT&T (First Customer Shipping of one is announced to be in october).

In the meantime, does anyone know of a such compiler form any other supplier???

If you do, please let me know.

Tor Sannes
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From: jon@prl.philips.co.uk (Jon Piesing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: Does Liken support AppleShare? PAP?
Date: 13 Aug 92 10:28:17 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
: In article <1992Aug4.120018.24898@hyphen.com> dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest) writes:
: >Does Liken (a Macintosh emulator for the Sun SPARC series) support any
: >sort of AppleTalk networking?  If not built-in, does it cooperate with
: >any third-party vendor's AppleTalk stack for the Sun (e.g. IPT's
: >Partner package)?
: 
: No, Liken doesn't currently support any Macintosh networking.
: 
: The latest version does recognize most of the formats in use for storing
: Macintosh files on Unix file servers (AppleDouble, AppleSingle, and
: whatever IPT uses).  So to share files between a Mac and Liken, you would
: use the Mac to copy the file to Unix in one of these formats, and then
: access it from Liken.
: -- 
: Barry Margolin
: System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
: 
: barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

Anybody got a contact address for more information on Liken ?

Jon Piesing	( jon@prl.philips.co.uk )
Interactive Systems Group
Philips Research Labs, Redhill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: cptully@med.unc.edu (Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,62679)
Subject: Re: background/foreground colors
Reply-To: cptully@med.unc.edu
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:22:00 GMT

>In article <1992Aug18.033357.9923@fcom.cc.utah.edu> bryant@ced.utah.edu writes:
>:I give up! After an hour and a half I cannot get cmdtool to set my background
>:to black and my foreground to yellow. I want this to be through my .Xdefaults
>:file, not the command line.
>
>:Does anyone know how to JUST get cmdtool to change colors?
>:
>:I tried the obvious,
>:
>:   cmdtool.window.color.background: black
>:   cmdtool.window.color.foreground: yellow
>


OK, you've tried the hard way, now try the easy way:

1) in your current (wrong color) cmdtool type:

cmdtool -bg black -fg yellow &

2) now quit the cmdtool that has the wrong color scheme.
3) if you have customized your openwin-menu file add the "-bg black 
   -fg yellow" to your cmdtool statrup line.
4) SAVEWORKSPACE!!! - this puts the color info in the right place.  

Or, if you don't like this approach, edit your .openwin-init file to 
look like this:

toolwait cmdtool -Wp 387 0 -Ws 593 869 -WP 161 833 -Wi -fg yellow -bg black 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
Subject: background/foreground colors
Reply-To: bryant@ced.utah.edu
Organization: Center for Engineering Design
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 03:33:57 GMT

I give up! After an hour and a half I cannot get cmdtool to set my background
to black and my foreground to yellow. I want this to be through my .Xdefaults
file, not the command line.

If I put the following

   *window.color.background: black
   *window.color.foreground: yellow

in the file, then cmdtool works, but EVERYTHING ELSE changes too, and for
some reason the text in all the buttons and menus goes yellow (maybe that
makes sense).

Does anyone know how to JUST get cmdtool to change colors?

I tried the obvious,

   cmdtool.window.color.background: black
   cmdtool.window.color.foreground: yellow

It didn't work.

Thanks a lot,
Bryant Eastham
Center for Engineering Design
bryant@ced.utah.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Subject: Re: SoundTool's Bad Quality
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:28:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: Sound

In article <1992Aug21.090123.4459@muppet.bt.co.uk> adam@muppet.bt.co.uk writes:
=Hi!
=
=I'm running a SPARCstation IPX with SUNOS 4.1.2
=
=My question concerns soundtool.
=
=Why is the reproduction so awful ? I connected a CD played to the sound input
=port, sampled a couple of my favourite tracks with soundtool and saved them
=on disk. No problems.
=
=However, when played back via soundtool they sound dreadful - like a an old fashioned 
=transistor radio.
=
=It would be reallly nice to have decent quality sound on disk.
=
=
=I wonder if any of you SUN guru's can tell me why the repro is so bad ?
=
=It occurs to me that it is either:
=
=1. The sample rate is too slow, although 8000 times a second sounds a lot to me.
=   (I rebuilt soundtool with the #define governing the sample rate set to 25,000 
=    but it made no difference)
=
=2. If the values are stored as integers (8 bit bytes), then there only 256
=   possibilities, for the whole frequency range in any case.

Get a Sparc 10 with a 16 bits chip.

=
=Anyway, if anyone has an explanation, solution, or some alternative software
=that will perform better please let me know.
=
=
=Cheers - Adam.
=
=Adam Lipscombe. BT Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.


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