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From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Question about Tektronix Phaser printers
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 01:42:19 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.223144.26249@leland.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>[...]  Now, I think it would be nice to save the $2000 and get
>the raster version of the Phaser, and let the SGI do the Postscript
>rendering.  However, I don't know if it will still be possible to use
>CAP to spool Postscript from the Macintoshes.  It seems likely, but I
>would like to hear from anyone who has done this, just to make sure.

Absolutely, the interface is identical at that level.  If you can lp
the file, either the raster or the PXi printer can print it.  You'll
notice a SIGNIFICANT speed increase if you use the host rasterizer.

>Do we lose anything else if we go for the raster version of the printer?
>What about the "TekColor" color matching system?  Is this a significant
>feature?

You do lose the color correction, though there is an undocumented
color-correction feature for SGI images sent to the raster printers.
It is quite possible to correct your documents at the host end if you
really want to tweak the colors.  Blue is the most affected.

>Finally, comparing the Phaser II and III, I think we're leaning towards
>the III because of the plain paper capability.  Is it possible to print
>transparencies with the III, or are the dyes totally incompatible?  Is
>there a significant difference in print quality between the II and III?
>How do print speeds and per-page costs compare?

Print quality is similar, though you should really look at some
samples to see the difference.  Phaser III prints are not as durable
since the ink can scratch off, and doesn't tolerate folding.  The
Phaser III takes twice as long to print the page, not counting
rasterization time, about 4 minutes per page versus about 2 minutes
per page on the Phaser II engine.

Transparencies are generally better on the II than on the III, though
per-page costs are noticably higher due to the special paper and the
use of a complete ribbon page per printed page.  The III only uses as
much ink as you put on the page, no waste.

Cheers,

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California

I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
From: davis@bedlam.asd.sgi.com (Tom Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Zip problems (?) with IRIX 4.0.5
Date: 2 Oct 1992 15:20:22 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bedlam.asd.sgi.com

I have done some research on this (zip hanging in 4.0.5), and although
I'm not sure it's the same problem that Dave Dittrich has, I did find
that zip will hang on some 4.0.5 systems if the environment variable
DISPLAY is not set.  If you are having this problem, do a "printenv"
and see if DISPLAY is set.  If not, try setting it to ":0" or
something.

This is a bug, but I haven't figured out yet what it is.  There's some
bizarre interaction between the DISPLAY variable and sockets and a
pure X and pure GL application talking over them.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Subject: Re: Need help in Showcase!!
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 19:56:58 GMT


In article <1992Oct2.190140.19710@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, cychong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
> 
> Hi, every comp.sys.sgi subscriber,
> 
>      Does anyone know how to type in text more than one
> page in Showcase?


This is described in the on-line help and in the Showcase
User's Guide, but here is what you do:

	- Choose "New Page" from the Page Menu.
	- Click on the Text Box icon in the Master Gizmo.
	  Place the text box on your new page.
	- Press Page Up on your keyboard to get to the
	  previous page.
	- Select the text block on the page.
	- Choose "Text Gizmo" from the Gizmo menu.
	  Click on the leftmost button directly under
	  the heading "Connect Blocks:" in the Text Gizmo.
	- Press Page Down to get to your new page.
	- Select your new text block.
	- Click on the rightmost button directly under
	  "Connect Blocks:" in the Text Gizmo.

You have now created two linked text blocks which go across
pages.  Any text that will not fit on the first page will
automatically flow to the next.  In addition, when you select
one of the text blocks for editing, the other text block
will be selected as well.  You can link many text blocks
together this way.  Also, linked text blocks may be on the
same page.

> Also, does anyone know if I can get more different fonts
> for Showcase?

Showcase 2.0 is limited to the fonts which come packaged
with it.  Showcase 3.0 is exected to lift this restriction.

--
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: hofmann@mira.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Hofmann)
Subject: Problem with scandir
Keywords: scandir
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:31:56 GMT

Hi,

has anybody used the function scandir(3C) successfully? I've been trying, but
what I get back as namelist isn't quite what I expect. Is there any short piece
of code which I could have a look at?
We are running IRIX 4.0.1. Problem occurs on 340, PI, Indigo.

Thanks in advance,
Bernhard

hofmann@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:14685 comp.graphics.opengl:15
From: smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com (Steve Dahmen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics.opengl
Subject: Getting Some source or pointers re: GLX library port to RS6k
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Date: 6 Oct 1992 15:07:57 GMT
Organization: Scientific Research Lab, Ford Motor Company
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sl0091.srl.ford.com
Keywords: RS/6000, Mixed Mode programming
Originator: smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com


Mixed Mode Gurus,

We are trying to build a mixed mode program destined eventually for OpenGL
that has to run on both the SGI machines and the RS/6000.  I was delighted
to find the source to the Glx[M]Draw widget in ~4Dgifts.  And it will port
fine to the RS/6000, except that it makes a call to GLXgetconfig().

I'm in the midst of hacking an RS/6000 version of GLXgetconfig, and am
stumped in terms of how to probe the server for the correct visual in terms
of overlay/underlay/popup planes.  What do you ask for?  What bitplane
depths should be used?  And how does one get the colormaps to line up
correctly??

Would it be possible to snarf the C code to the GLXgetconfig() function, or
better yet the GLX library?  I am hoping that since it's going away with OpenGL,
it perhaps is not considered highly proprietary and could be released?  If
not, is there an SGI person that could offer some pointers/coaching here?

I would be more than happy to share my port with the GL community to help
those who need to get something going before OpenGL arrives.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanx in advance,

Steve


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Ford Motor Company
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Ford Motor Company
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:14682 comp.infosystems.gis:3254
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: Re: ArcInfo on SGI Indigo
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:38:12 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <1992Oct5.201358.1@cstp.umkc.edu>, lcsim@cstp.umkc.edu (Lin-Chow Sim) writes:
- Hi!
- 
-     We are trying to install the ARC/Info 6.01 (in CD-Rom) onto a  SGI Indigo
- X24.  However, a full installation will take > 400MB which means almost half of
- the total disk space we have on Indigo.
-     It just doesn't make sense to me in dumping everything from the ROM onto the
- hard disk.  Can't we just run in off the Rom (of course at the expense of speed
- but 400MB is just simply to much).  Anyone out there has experience on this 
- problem and manage to reduce the amount of dump onto the hard drive?  Your 
- ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated.  Thanks ...
- 
We are using ARC/Info and had similar problems convincing the department
that wanted to use it that they really need to budget for the disk space
packages like this takes. Unfortunately there is no easy solution to it,
you just have to buy the disk space.

You can try to cut down on the data sets thatyou install, but I can assure 
you very soon somebody will be at your door and convince you that just
this particular data file on Western Samoa (or wherever), which you thought 
nobody could positively ever want, is absolutely vital and must be restored
pronto. - Just too much hassle.

Get a 1.6 or 2 Gb wren in a box and your problems will be solved (for four 
weeks or so ...)

                                         thomas

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From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: HELP:how to record image in window by VCR ?
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:44:09 GMT


In answer to:

>In article <1992Sep23.164915.5041@ecl.psu.edu>, zhe@ecl.psu.edu writes:

>|> Sorry if this problem is in the FAQ, but ....
>|> 
>|> Is there any command I can use to record the 3d simulation image in a window 
>|> by VCR? I have 4D/35 and videoframer.

Greg Estes goes on to explain various video options.  But the original
poster did mention he had a videoframer and hence, has already got the
hardware.

To get the image from the video framer to VCR, you need a controller (VLAN)
to make the VCR record, a VCR that allows frame-by-frame editing, and some
code based on the stuff that comes with VFR library.  

We are just getting started on this and have only this week recorded our
first sequence automatically, but are not ready to ship the code anywhere.
Do other folks have more to offer in the way of control software for the
video framer?

Rob.

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From: lacey@dsea.com (Dan Lacey )
Subject: cc compiler versions
Organization: Dainippon Screen Engineering of America, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:36:35 GMT


I am trying to get Xinet's appletalk software (K-Talk, 
KSpool, and KShare) to run on an Indigo R4K. Xinet provides
a kernel driver. 
When I try to make the kernel, I get an error from ld stating that
vflush is undefined. The installation software from Xinet
uses autoconfig to build the kernel. Trying my own build
produces the same errors. kernel.o gets loaded before the
Xinet library.
If I take out the system entry for atalk.a (Xinet), everything
works. This was working great on 4.0.4.

R4K Entry Graphics 
IRIX 4.0.5 F

Did I miss something?????

-- 

					Dan Lacey
					lacey@dsea.com
					Dainippon Screen Eng. of America
From: john@flower (John W. Schwegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Using the Indigo centronics port
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:15:26 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mcgraw@fermat.gte.com (Stuart McGraw) writes:
: Hope I'm not beating a dead horse here but....
: 
.. (omitted)
: 
: What DB25 pin is the reset (pin 31 in the manpage) signal line on?
: 

I just did this. I'm using the reset strobe to sync an external device.
The pin number was 16 on the DB25 connector, at least that's where I
found the signal.

: And thanks again...
: 							-- Stu

John
john@sg25.aud.temple.edu
From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CDman saving disk titles
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:50:33 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA


>>>>> In article <2976@news.cerf.net>, billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:

billabs> What's the secret in getting CDman to save title
billabs> and artist info? I select the field and enter text
billabs> but it never seems to get saved. When a track advances,
billabs> I just get the "Enter CD (Title/Artist) Here" string back again.

You have to hit <Return> (or <Enter> or whatever it's labeled) after
each change to the field for it to take affect. It's a Motif thingy.

=-=-=
--
 Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> / Traveller on Dragon Wings
 Networking Services,        / Help! My disclaimer is missing!
 Silicon Graphics, Inc      / GIGO *really* means: Garbage in, Gospel Out
From: miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How do I make Iris use a nameserver?
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:41:19 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep30.110420.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au>, daniel@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au writes:
|> 
|> Could someone please point the way to defining a name server for
|> a PI 4D.  I have RTM and found the section on setting up the Iris
|> as a nameserver, but nothing on how to tell the Iris who to ask
|> to resolve unknown hostnames.  The nameserver I want to use is
|> muwaya.ucs.unimelb.edu.au 128.250.20.2 .  How do I tell my Iris?
|> 
|> Thanks...

I think you want to look at the file /usr/etc/resolv.conf
the manpage on resolver covers things...

in your case you would have the following in this file...

domain ucs.unimelb.edu.au
nameserver 128.240.20.2


you might also want to include a hostresorder line..



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miguel@csd.sgi.com			
Member Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: An exciting xwsh(?) bug
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:40:52 GMT
Organization: Yale University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone else has this problem. It's been reported to the TAC
as bug number 124808. We're running 4.0.4 on a 4D25.

1) 'mv .netrc foo' for the moment, if you have one.
2) Get into csh if you're not there already.
3) 'repeat 10 xwsh -autofork -e ftp your-machine'

Who does ftp (or xwsh) think you are? It works best for us just after login.

Cheers,

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| Lab phone: 203-432-5208      Fax: 203-432-6144     Home phone: 203-624-3866 |
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: HELP! Trying to config kernel for VME device
Date: 2 Oct 92 02:46:19 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Oct1.192256.15752@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> barrett@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (Jim Barrett) writes:
| 
| The printf produces "board_ctl == 0x00600000" every time I run the
| program.   My program drops core on the "board_ctl->csr.fail_led = 1"
| statement.   Attempting to read from the board also causes core
| dumps.  

That is about the right address to be returning.  About all that I
can think of is that your board_ctl structure is such that you are
doing an illegal access (like a word fetch on an unaligned boundary,
or something of that nature).
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: zip 2.91 hangs randomly under IRIX 4.0.4
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:47:21 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

In article <q8smodo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>In article <Bv3Fzw.4wL@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>> ...
>>                                       ...  But it's too bad X is such a
>> pig ...
>
>
>Consider made the familiar comments about X, bloat, consortia, design
>by committee, and so on.
>
>
>Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com


We have an article hanging on the wall of our lab entitled,
"The X Attitude". The basic premise of the article is that you
should write the niftiest, spiffiest, most portable program you can
think of and forget about performance concerns, because hardware
will catch up to your application in a few years anyway.

To some extent, this is true: hardware has come a long way in the
last few years. However, I am glad that while other people are
waiting for workstation performance to catch up to their
applications, we have zip today.

Somebody should give Tom Davis a raise.

-- 
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email:      flash@austin.lockheed.com | "So far as we know, our
voice mail: (512) 386-4486            |  computer has never had
fax:        (512) 386-4223            |  an undetected error"
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo/r4k -- better machine, crummier monitor
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:37:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.2AD09968.15164
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <BvnDxw.1pu@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> mark@cita.toronto.edu writes:
>So, what's going on, SGI?  Isn't this a bit of bait-and-switch, to ship
>a system with a monitor that nearly everyone (at least, nearly everyone
>who I've talked with) feels is inferior to the ones that travel around
>with the demo systems?  Anyone care to comment?
>
Anyone I know also prefers the SONY Trinitron monitors to any other 
type of monitor. However the Indigo R4000 seems to have a monitor using
the Trinitron "technology" but build by another vendor (Hitachi?), it
seems to be much better than previous monitors, but I haven't compared
it against a real SONY yet.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: woo@ra-next.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo x6010 227-6 rm 315)
Subject: Tek 4396 printer woes
Reply-To: woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 17:50:58 GMT

Does anyone have the source or a replacement for
	/usr/lib/print/t93print?
We find that when this printer hangs, this filter is impossible
to kill and we have to reboot the machine.  There must be a
better way.

Thanks for any assistance.

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Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000     SPANET        24582::WOO
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From: mcgraw@fermat.gte.com (Stuart McGraw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Using the Indigo centronics port
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:19:17 GMT
Organization: GTE Labs, Waltam MA USA

Hello,

	I have some questions about using the centronics printer port 
on an Indigo.  What I want to do is use the centronics port as a general 
parallel i/o port, i.e read (and possibly later write) 8 bits of data 
from an external device of my own contruction.

So to this end, can anyone tell me (or point me to) a description of 
the centronics protocol?  

I presume the DB25 connector down at the bottom of the Indigo cabinet 
is the centronics port.  (I know the information must be somewhere but 
for the life of me I can't find anything in the Indigo manuals that says 
what all those jacks on the back of the Indigo are!)

The man plp manpage gives the signal assignments for pins 1-31.  If
the DB25 is the printer port, then how are the 31 pins mapped to the 
DB25 pins?  

What does PLPIOCSETMASK do?

Any other advise on doing this (or reasons why I shouldn't)?

I am using Irix 4.0.1 if that matters.  Thanks for any info...

						-- Stu

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: peter@ml.csiro.au (Peter Campbell)
Subject: 4.0.3 FORTRAN missing .lok files
Organization: CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart TAS, Australia
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:31:50 GMT

Am I correct in thinking that since 4.0.3 FORTRAN does not create the .lok
file for indexed files?  This was not mentioned in the release notes.  

Peter Campbell       peter@ml.csiro.au
CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart, Australia
From: peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com (Peter Birch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Moving an ELAN graphics board
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:42:53 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <1a95p7INNs58@agate.berkeley.edu>, 
  desilva@tikal.ced.berkeley.edu writes:
> Is it possible to move an elan board from a crimson to an
> r4k indigo or regular indigo? If so, how hard is it to do?

Well, if you open up your Crimson, you might notice that there looks to be a
board set inside that looks a lot like an Indigo board set.  I'll just bet
that if you disconnect it from the 9U bracket, plug it into an Indigo, and
install new software that it will work. ;^)

peter

.....Peter Birch.....peterb@perturb.esd.sgi.com.....MTS, Graphics Hardware.....
......Silicon Graphics, Inc.....Mountain View, CA 94039.....(415)390-1512......
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From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Adding a second swap partition at boot time
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:56:12 GMT
X-Posted-From: avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <qh9da54@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
 olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Sep30.232029.28186@serval.net.wsu.edu>
> flynn@kalamazoo.eecs.wsu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn) writes:

>| How do I make IRIX add this swap space at boot time?....

>...don't worry, it is easy....
>This is handled in somewhat more detail in one of the system admin
>manuals, I'm pretty sure.

Whether or not this is true, the general procedure is described in detail
in /etc/init.d/README.  And yes, it is pretty easy.

	-P.
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From: spencer@hailwood.asd.sgi.com (Paul Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: bvo_admin quits
Date: 30 Sep 1992 17:26:58 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailwood.asd.sgi.com

mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen) says:
> 
> System is a crimson-vgx 4.0.5
> bvo_admin fails with message...
> 
> Label font not found.

Sounds like you just upgraded to 4.0.5.

Unfortunately, the toolkit that bvo_admin (and several other programs)
is based on relied upon internals of the operating system that have
changed. The workaround for now is to set the environment variable
DGLTYPE to DGLTSOCKET; for instance, if you're using csh, type

	setenv DGLTYPE DGLTSOCKET

or add it to your .cshrc file.

This will be fixed in a forthcoming release of the Video Products CD.

....paul

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