HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Any X apps that generate Tektronics 4014 graphics output?
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:04:19 GMT
Organization: Not a lot
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>>>>> On 7 Oct 92 03:17:41 GMT, wang@sparc23.cs.uiuc.edu (Eric Wang) said:

 ...
Eric> Nobody I know has ever seen, or knows anybody who's seen, an X app that
Eric> actually generates 4014 graphics.

Why would an *X* application generate 4014 graphics?

Eric> There must have been _some_ reason why xterms were written to support
Eric> 4014s, eh?

Same reason as xterm was written to support character based
applications - there's lots of old software out there that can't drive
X directly.

(If you want an example try looking at the manual entry for plot(1)).

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From: mdm@stegosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Moore)
Subject: Re: Simple Script Language That Can Work With x?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:38:37 GMT

In article <Bw6G4K.Mnx@sti.com> westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Does anyone know of a language, public domain or commercial, that will
>let users display x-based dialogs and pass results back to the script?
>In other words, it would be nice to be able to call up an x-based dialog
>from within a csh script running in the background and have that display
>on my PC terminal.  Of course one could probably do it in c, but I'm
>looking for something that is easy to use that can be used to create
>quick scripts.
>

	Check out tcl/tk.  It allows you to do this and much, much
more.  Read the comp.lang.tcl faq for more info.

	-Michael (tk addict)

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From: kerr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr)
Subject: ghostview
Summary: Need help with ghostview window geometry
Keywords: postscript ghostview geometry
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:02:14 GMT

I'm trying to use ghostview 1.1 to display a postscript file, and having
a devil of a time figuring out how to set the window geometry. The man
page, which goes into gory detail about everything else, is no help at all.
The size of the window seems to bear little relation to what I have in 
my resource file, which is something like

    Ghostview.geometry: 500x500+1+20

The specific numbers here are not important; I can tell it's reading the
resource file because the window does change in some cases, but ghostview
seems to be using my specification as a mere suggestion.

I *want* to make it set an appropriate geometry for displaying a complete
image of an 8.5 by 11 inch page as defined in the postscript file. I can only
get it to display about 2/3 of a page at a time. It should be smart enough to
scale the page to fit on my display, even if the image might be difficult
to read. Shouldn't it?
 
   Stan Kerr  University of Illinois/Urbana  stankerr@uiuc.edu
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From: dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel Len Schales)
Subject: xfig->hpgl
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:34:55 GMT

I need a way to convert the output of xfig to hpgl. The version
of xfig I have has an export option for "IBMGL (or HPGL)" but
when I use it, xfig calls the transfig package which doesn't know
how to do the conversion. I cannot locate a transfig package that
does this. In fact I can't locate anything that converts to HPGL.

Does anyone know of a way to convert xfig to HPGL? At this point
I will take any *2hpgl filter.

Thanks

Danny Schales
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: xdbx problems ...
Keywords: debuggers
Date: 7 Oct 92 06:17:22 GMT
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute

Note that the most current version of ups is 2.45.

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From: envbvs@epb11.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: xfig->hpgl
Date: 14 Oct 1992 18:37:57 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.123

In article <1992Oct14.173455.3739@engr.latech.edu>, dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel Len Schales) writes:
|> I need a way to convert the output of xfig to hpgl. The version
|> of xfig I have has an export option for "IBMGL (or HPGL)" but
|> when I use it, xfig calls the transfig package which doesn't know
|> how to do the conversion. I cannot locate a transfig package that
|> does this. In fact I can't locate anything that converts to HPGL.
|> 
|> Does anyone know of a way to convert xfig to HPGL? At this point
|> I will take any *2hpgl filter.

You caught us :-)  xfig had the option before fig2dev did, but now:

Transfig 2.1.5 DOES now contain a fig to hpgl filter, although it hasn't
been released yet.  It should only be a matter of a few days, though
before it is put on export for ftp. 

Stay tuned.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.open-look,comp.sources.wanted
From: g9129499@cc.uow.edu.au (Jeremy Lawrence)
Subject: Wanted: X-based binary file editor
Summary: Are there any X-based binary file editors out there?
Reply-To: jeremy@snrc.uow.edu.au
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 07:34:27 GMT

The subject says it all. Are there any around? Any chance of an 
Xview/Olit one?

Thanks,
    Jeremy

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: westes@sti.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Simple Script Language That Can Work With x?
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:14:44 GMT

Does anyone know of a language, public domain or commercial, that will
let users display x-based dialogs and pass results back to the script?
In other words, it would be nice to be able to call up an x-based dialog
from within a csh script running in the background and have that display
on my PC terminal.  Of course one could probably do it in c, but I'm
looking for something that is easy to use that can be used to create
quick scripts.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: mtvfb@nl (Fokke de Boer)
Subject: Re: Some xtalk program for UNIX SYSV??
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene,Bilthoven,NL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:41:04 GMT

Raymond Chui (rchui@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil) wrote:
: In article <BvpHvI.Ms1@rivm.nl>, mtvfb@nl (Fokke de Boer) writes:
: |> 
: |> Hello People,
: |> 
: |> I have found somewhere a program called "xtalk". It seemed a nice program
: |> to have, BUT, we don't have BSD here. We are running on a HP9000-730
: |> under HPUX 8.07, which is some kind of SYSV UNIX.
: |> Does there exist a similar program as xtalk for SYSV somewhere?
: |> 
: |
: Doesn't matter wheather Sys V or BSD Unix. You have to download
: the source codes from one of following ftp site and compile the codes
: by yourself. Besides, Douglas Young he wrote a xtalk program in his
: book "Window System Programming and Applications With Xt OSF/Motif
: Edition" at chapter 11. All you need is get the book and codes, compile
: by yourself.
: 
: {39}archie xtalk
[ Output of archie deleted ]

OK, so xtalk runs now at my machine. BUT, the person to talk with has
to respond (according to the man-pages) with :
	xtalk | talk person@site
Which I think is strange. Should that not read:
	talk person@site | xtalk

But that is not the main problem. The main problem with our HP running
HPUX is, that we don't have talk (or talkd for that matter).
Any solutions???

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: rob@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (rob)
Subject: "strip-chart" recorder in a window
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:23:21 GMT
Keywords: strip-chart

I am looking for a program that displays measured data in a moving
"strip-chart" type format in an X-window. An example of usage might
be to display data read from HPIB-connected lab instrumentation
in pseudo-real time. Or perhaps someone knows of an existing library
function that provides this functionality.

Thanks in advance for any pointers. Please respond via e-mail as I am not
a regular reader of this group. Anyone interested on being on a
distribution list for this info should also respond.

.....rob

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: tonyf@postmaster@ims.com (Antonio Freixas)
Subject: Re: ups (was Re: xdbx problems ...)
Keywords: debuggers
Reply-To: tonyf@ims.com
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:16:58 GMT

I got ups and tried it with Sun's ANSI C compiler, acc.  No luck.  It
seemed to work fine with cc.  Does it not handle acc or did I do
something wrong?

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: rob@psy.vu.nl (Rob van Leeuwen)
Subject: xmail 1.4: where is xpm?? (was: where is compfaces)
Organization: VU Amsterdam - dienst CCA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:31:01 GMT

Hi, the README for xmail 1.4 also says that it can use colored icons,
when using xpm.  Now I think that xmail uses an older version of xpm
than the one that is currently available.  In detail: there is a call
to XReadPixmapFile in Mailwatch.c that generates this error message:

	  1506-215: (S) Too many arguments for macro.

I think xmail needs xpm version 3.0 instead of 3.2, or something along
these lines.  Who succeeded in compiling xmail with xpm?

(And yes, I did succeed in compiling it using the compfaces library,
John R. Ruckstuhl...

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x
From: mtimko@pdx066.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Mark Timko)
Subject: Remotely modifing pixel memory 
Reply-To: mtimko@ichips.intel.com
Organization: Workgroup Computing Division, PDX, Intel
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:07:14 GMT

Has anyone out there know of a way to modify the pixel memory
on an RS6000 running X11 3.2 (X11R5)?  

The reason I am asking is that someone in my office played 
a little joke by writing a message to my screen by hand
with a mouse. As I was sitting at my desk, this message
appeared as the person was writing it and I am assuming it was
writing the pixel memory because the message went across the
entire screen covering what ever was under it (i.e. not just
in one window or just the background).

The text looked like a free hand drawing with a thick "brush"
like you could create in a "paint" program.  I am guessing that
someone in my office has a program that allows them to perform
this "magic" and I wanted to know if anyone has heard of this
before.

If you have any clues to my little mystery, please reply by
Email since I don't normally read this group.

- Mark 
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: allan@hpopf1.cern.ch (Allan Skillman)
Subject: twm on VAX
Summary: Has anybody managed to get twm working on a VAXstation 3100?
Keywords: twm
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Distribution: cern
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:46:43 GMT

Has anybody managed to get the twm window manager running on a VAXstation?   
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: rchui@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Raymond Chui)
Subject: Re: Some xtalk program for UNIX SYSV??
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - White Oak
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:28:46 GMT

-
In article <BvqtGG.IFC@rivm.nl>, mtvfb@nl (Fokke de Boer) writes:

|> OK, so xtalk runs now at my machine. BUT, the person to talk with has
|> to respond (according to the man-pages) with :
|> 	xtalk | talk person@site
|> Which I think is strange. Should that not read:
|> 	talk person@site | xtalk
|> 
|> But that is not the main problem. The main problem with our HP running
|> HPUX is, that we don't have talk (or talkd for that matter).
|> Any solutions???

Thank you for your information. Because I am going to buy a HP-9000/750.
I will call HP to find out. HP sales man told me they have implemented
some bsd utilities in HPUX system. At the meanwhile, why you don't
try to compile Douglas Young xtalk program in that HP worksation.
Young he is work for HP. His program written with Motif widgets, you
may need OSF/Motif in your system.

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From: tevans@unislc.uucp (Terry Evans)
Subject: Needed: X-application to save keystrokes to a file
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:59:43 GMT


   I am looking for some X-application that will run and save all the keystrokes
that are typed in any particluar window, or all of the windows, out to a file
or someplace.  I have heard that there is one available.  If you have one please
email it to me.

   I would prefer if it would run on an hp (non HP-UX) or a sun IPC or IPX style
work station.  All are running BSD 4.3.

Thanks in advance!!

tevans@cs.utah.edu or tevans@unislc.slc.unisys.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
Subject: Re: (x)nn newsreader available?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: cu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:35:14 GMT

cano@shusakutsg.tandem.com (Jonathan Cano) writes:

>I have used the ascii news reader nn (No News is good news :^) for
>quit a while and I like it's strongly 'message threaded'  design.

>I have tried xrn (that's what I'm using now) but it just doesn't cut
>it for those high volume newsgroups!  Anyways, what I'm leading up to
>is the following:  Is there an X windows version of nn out there
>(or something comparable)?

>please help!!!

>--Jonathan

>jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu

In my dreams...

I really need a NeXT with NewsGrazer..

(seriously, though, if such a beast exists, I would love to hear of it as well)

Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: ibe1109@draper.com (Ira Ekhaus)
Subject: matlab4, and zooming in general
Organization: Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:08:37 GMT

hi,

I'm using matlab 4.0 on a sun sparc  station under X windows.
i have some complicated plots  that I'd like to examine portions of 
with great accuracy.
I believe the limiting factor here is NOT the  screen resolution,
but my eyes, and I anticipate an improvement
with the use of a  zoom utility.

Are there any available under X?
thanks,

Ira
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Cambridge , MA 
02139
From: simonm@mel.dit.csiro.au (Simon McClenahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: (x)nn newsreader available?
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:37:23 GMT
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)


In article <1992Oct14.190048.25527@tandem.com>, cano@shusakutsg.tandem.com (Jonathan Cano) writes:
|> I have used the ascii news reader nn (No News is good news :^) for
|> quit a while and I like it's strongly 'message threaded'  design.
|> 
|> I have tried xrn (that's what I'm using now) but it just doesn't cut
|> it for those high volume newsgroups!  Anyways, what I'm leading up to
|> is the following:  Is there an X windows version of nn out there
|> (or something comparable)?


xrn has the "threaded" capabilities you describe... RTFM

xrn +sortedSubjects


I also like a nice printout, and vi to post and followup to messages with...

xrn -printCommand "mp -a -f - | lpr " -editorCommand "xterm -e vi %s" +sortedSubjects



Anybody wanna see my csh prompt with $pwd in it? :-)



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From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
Subject: ligatures in xfig/transfig?
Reply-To: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:49:45 GMT

It would be nice to get the ligatures for ff, fi, etc, in
xfig text, but there are no compose sequences for them.  Looking
at the contents of X11 fonts, I see that they aren't included
(a grave omission, IMHO), but that xfig thoughtfully provided ways
of getting at all of the characters contained there anyway.

But those ligatures are surely in the PostScript fonts, so is there
some weird sequence that I can insert in a .fig file that'll get
turned into a ligature on printing?

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: favre@cmurisc1.unige.ch (Eric Favre)
Subject: Re: Simple Script Language That Can Work With x?
Organization: University of Geneva	
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:15:51 GMT

Will Estes wrote:
>Does anyone know of a language, public domain or commercial, that will
>let users display x-based dialogs and pass results back to the script?
>In other words, it would be nice to be able to call up an x-based dialog
>from within a csh script running in the background and have that display
>on my PC terminal.  Of course one could probably do it in c, but I'm
>looking for something that is easy to use that can be used to create
>quick scripts.

xmenu2 provides simple OSF/Motif popup menus to shell scripts.
Maybe it can help you.
You'll find it for example at wuarchive.wustl.edu, 
/usenet/comp.sources.x/volume12.

			Eric

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: cano@shusakutsg.tandem.com (Jonathan Cano)
Subject: (x)nn newsreader available?
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:00:48 GMT

I have used the ascii news reader nn (No News is good news :^) for
quit a while and I like it's strongly 'message threaded'  design.

I have tried xrn (that's what I'm using now) but it just doesn't cut
it for those high volume newsgroups!  Anyways, what I'm leading up to
is the following:  Is there an X windows version of nn out there
(or something comparable)?

please help!!!

--Jonathan

jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu
From: soulard@iznogoud.inria.fr (Herve Soulard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: xfig to PS (with special european char's) (Was: Re: xfig->hpgl)
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:10:30 GMT
Reply-To: soulard@sor.inria.fr
Organization: INRIA

> I have a problem with the transfig package (2.1.4, that is).
> I am using xfig to do drawings (on SUN SLC). I can enter the special
> european characters like a-umlaut, etc. and I see them on the screen
> but they are not printed on our postscript printer. A quick look
> at the .fig file seems to indicate that the code for a-umlaut is really
> in there. So, I guess the problem must be in "fig2ps".
> How can I solve it ?

I really think the problem is with fig2dev. If I remember, the code of the postscript driver does not handle all the ISO-lATIN1 characters. I don't know why, but somes are omitted. For my personal use, I've just added the one missing. 

	Herve Soulard.
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