HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bardo@ief-paris-sud.fr (Bardo Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Composing Postscript image out of subimages
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:51:23 GMT
Reply-To: bardo@ief-paris-sud.fr
Organization: Universite de Paris

Dear Henry,

I use essentially 3 methods for this

1) LaTeX / psfig 
	+  writing nice captions
	-- it is just the opposite of wysiwyg

2) tgif 
	+ you see where it will go
	- borders visible only

3) ICE (there is a precompiled version for sun4 -- check with archie)
	++ you see everything
	-- it's slooow

Hope you are helped with this.

Salut

Bardo


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel Len Schales)
Subject: Re: x3270 Printing
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:25:34 GMT

Dan Donovan - Sun San Francisco SE (dgd@nantucket.West.Sun.COM) wrote:
: A while ago, I remember seeing a post about someone having added printing support
: to x3270.  Would someone please point me at an FTP site where I could get source
: to hack on?
: 
: Thanks!
: 
: Dan
: 
Well I don't know where one is for ftp, but if you have the version
with cut and paste, it only takes, probably less than 20 lines of
code to write a function to "copy" the entire screen to a buufer
to print and bind it to a key. If no one points one up, I'll clean
mine up and put it up for anonymous ftp.

Danny
From: dgd@nantucket.West.Sun.COM (Dan Donovan - Sun San Francisco SE)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: x3270 Printing
Date: 16 Oct 1992 16:17:36 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dgd@nantucket.West.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: nantucket.west.sun.com

A while ago, I remember seeing a post about someone having added printing support
to x3270.  Would someone please point me at an FTP site where I could get source
to hack on?

Thanks!

Dan

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: Any X apps that generate Tektronics 4014 graphics output?
Reply-To: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:05:57 GMT

That's spelled Tektronix; the Tektronix 401x series of terminals were
prevalent graphic output devices for perhaps the better part of 2 decades,
and many software packages were written (particularly in FORTRAN) for
scientific applications using the graphic commands (mostly ESC sequences)
for 4010, 4012, and 4014 terminals.  Most of these applications can now
be used as-is through the network, because xterm includes the 'Tek4014'
widget; this saves re-writing a lot of code.

The Tektronix terminals used a 'refresh' graphics technology, and is
fundamentally a vector drawing device like a pen plotter, quite
distinct from modern raster graphics technology.  Although monochrome
(bright green lines on a dark green background), later models such as
the 4014 offered 4096x4096 resolution.

An application which produces both X and tek40xx output is 'gnuplot';
see the newly formed comp.graphics.gnuplot newsgroup.

	Rick Venable
	FDA Biophysics Lab
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: browning@willard.nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning)
Subject: Does xrn-users REALLY exist?
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 21:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: browning@willard.nas.nasa.gov

I've sent 3 messages to xrn-users-request@eros.berkeley.edu in the
past 6 weeks, asking to be added to the xrn-users mailing list.  I've
never heard a thing, either confirming my subscription or getting any
xrn-users mail.

Is there really an ACTIVE xrn-users mailing list?  Has anyone else had
problems getting on this list?  Getting off?

-- David

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From: envbvs@epb11.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Xfig 2.1.4 EPS objects
Date: 7 Oct 1992 21:28:59 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.123
Keywords: xfig EPS fig2dev

In article <1992Sep30.002417.22489@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, simmons@cs.washington.edu (David Simmons) writes:
|> I've been trying to use Xfig 2.1.4's ability to import encapsulated
|> PostScript objects, but am having problems exporting the results --
|> our version of fig2dev claims to be compatible with version 2.1 of xfig,
|> but when attempting to translate .fig files that include EPS objects (into
|> EPS or PS) it returns "Incomplete line object at line 3."

You just need to get the newest version of fig2dev (in the transfig package),
version 2.1.4 from export.lcs.mit.edu.

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: cristy@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Cristy)
Subject: Re: Composing Postscript image out of subimages
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development
Distribution: comp.windows.x.apps
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:30:50 GMT

In article <HSG.92Oct7152327@lem.duke.cs.duke.edu> hsg@lem.duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
>
>Is there a X window utility (public-domain preferred)
>that allows one to import .ps or .eps files and make a
>one-page figure out of the resulting images? For
>example, I would like to set up a 2x2 matrix of
>Postscript images repesenting x-y plots and label them,
>saving the final figure in Postscript form for
>printing.

Try contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu:
 
  montage image1.ps image2.ps image3.ps image4.ps image.ps
 
montage will label the images.  To add your own labels use the annotation
capabilities of `display'.

-- 
cristy@dupont.com
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From: stevedav@netcom.com (Steve Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,ba.windows.x
Subject: MIT X11 under OpenWindows 3.0
Keywords: X11 OpenWindows MIT X-Windows
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:09:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Usenetters,

I have a requirement for two X11 files:

/usr/local/lib/X11/libX11.a
/usr/include/X11/X.h


I need them to compile free "SUIT" software (a GUI front-end),
which requires these two X11 files.

Does anyone know where I can get them?  (I do have FTP access).

I have SunOS 4.1.2 with OpenWindows v3 which has its own
implementation of X.  I cannot find the associated X11 files
in OpenWindows v3.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

I will post the results if there is any interest.

Steve Davidson
steved@cfcl.com
From: tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: ghostview
Keywords: postscript ghostview geometry
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:38:41 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

kerr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr) writes:
> 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.

Sorry about that.  Constructive criticism will be accepted.  I'll have to
explain more about geometry.

> 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.

Ghostview attempts to display the document at its "natural" size.  It ignores
the width and height and calculates this on its own.  (This violates the
principle of least astonishment, since it does not act like other X
applications.  It does however, have the nice side effect that figures
are displayed in a window that just fits rather than taking up a whole
page.)  Another side effect of the width and height calculation is that
the position is determined by the Shell widget before the size calculation
is finished.  The problem here is that positions specified relative to
the bottom or right side of the screen (-0-0) produces unpredicatable results.

> 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?

Now, how does one get the window to be the "right" size for you.
What you need to do is pick the resolution that fits best on your
screen.  You can do this by setting the magstep.  This is a coarse
adjustment and works by scaling by powers of 1.2.  A much finer adjustment
can be made by setting the resolution explicitly.

To set a smaller magstep:
 a) use the "-magstep -n" (where n is 1-5) command line option.
 b) use the "Ghostview.magstep: -1" application resource.

To set a different resoulution:
 a) use the "-resolution n" (start around 60) command line option.
 b) use the "*Ghostview.Resolution: 60" application resource.

One other thing.  There are a couple of application resources verticalMargin
and horizontalMargin, which tell ghostview how much room should be left for
window manager decorations.

Also, please pick up ghostview-1.4 from ftp.cs.wisc.edu.
(It is in pub/X/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z.)

Hope this helps,  ...Tim

          Tim Theisen           Systems Programmer
Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu       Department of Computer Sciences
    UUCP: uwvax!tim             University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Phone: (608)262-0438         1210 West Dayton Street
     FAX: (608)262-9777         Madison, WI   53706
From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Looking for PD music score editor
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:02:51 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Does anyone know of a public domain music score editor (preferably with
the capability of writing MIDI files)?
-- 
_____________________________________________________________
Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: elk@cblpo.att.com (elk)
Subject: Solbourne Info/Applications wanted
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:24:22 GMT


I've just come onto a server that has the Solbourne OI package
installed.  I like the windowmanager a lot (swm) and have an
application or two in mind to hack on it with.  Problem is, while I
have all the man pages and things, I have no information on the
history or other such info of the package.  Most notably, I'm
interested in finding a nice /contrib directory someplace (in the hope
that someone else has already taken the time to implement a few of
"my" notions and I won't have to).
 
Can anyone tell me anything else about this package?
 
Thanks!
    
--
+------------------------+  
|Ed King                 |  "More customers" means less time to fish.
|elk@cblpo.cb.att.com    | 
|                        | 	  -- Going to Extremes    
+------------------------+  
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: weimer@spud.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Gary Weimer 726-3370)
Subject: Re: Xwindows-based 3270 Program
Reply-To: weimer@pixel.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co.; Rochester, NY
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 15:10:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.195946.26244@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, rrbk50@email.sps.mot.com (Rick Cottle) writes:
|> 
|> I received a lot of tips (thanks all) about x3270, which I have received and compiled.
|> I still have two problems.  The first is the message whenever I try to execute x3270:
|> 
|> Warning: Cannot convert string "3270" to type FontStruct
|> 
|> After the warning, it attempts to run, but the screen comes up with all of the characters
|> garbled.  This looks like a problem with the ebcdic -> ascii translation.

The ebcdic -> ascii translation is handled by the 3270 font.

You need to install the 3270 font in .../lib/X11/fonts/misc and then run
'mkfontdir .../lib/X11/fonts/misc'. The exact path for your fonts may
vary. The font you install should have the same extension as the other
fonts in the directory (.snf in X11R4, .pcf in X11R5). x3270 comes with
3270.bdf; use bdftosnf or bdftopcf to create the appropriate font.

After installing the font, you will need to restart X or 'xset fp rehash'

If you cannot get the font installed in the standard place (due to
permissions restrictions and lack of sys admin help), you can create
your own font directory, run mkfontdir on it, and then usr 'xset +fp
<dir>' to add this to your font path.

-- 

Gary Weimer (weimer@pixel.kodak.com)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: rthau@qualix.com (Rick Thau)
Subject: Re: Needed: X-application to save keystroke
Reply-To: rthau@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:03:28 GMT


You may want to look at SayIt! from Qualix.... it will save key strokes, mouse
movements, clicks, drag&drop, etc...... 

info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX

rt
========
In article 718605976@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu, benjamin@picasso.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Dennis Benjamin) writes:
>tevans@unislc.uucp (Terry Evans) writes:
>
>
>>   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
>
>Gee, I wonder why someone would want to save keystrokes from an
>X window ...
From: melby@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Can someone point me to an x-based mail program?
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:56:54 GMT
	<1a9b3hINN3v4@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
	<1992Sep29.154000.2767@uts.cc.wayne.edu>
	<1992Oct12.125832.8711@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD.
In-reply-to: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU's message of 12 Oct 92 21:58:32 JST

On the topic of mail clients, I would like to know if there is a good
(and compact) X mail client out there that supports MIME reasonably -
preferably something that doesn't require a hacked-up version of BSD
mail.  It should display non-ASCII encoded mail headers and allow
non-MIME messages to be displayed in Japanese.

(I suppose that mh + xmh + metamail + kterm + jless would be adequate, but
is there a solution that doesn't require so much disk space?) 

-----
John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@fai.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: edwardw@xwdev.pandc.rta.oz.au (Ed Wilkinson)
Subject: problem with xset +fp on NCD X terminal
Organization: Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW, Oz
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 07:20:58 GMT

I'm having problems adding a directory to the fontpath:

  xset +fp /usr/edwardw/xfonts/

  X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
  operation)
    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
    Value in failed request:  0x0
    Serial number of failed request:  4
    Current serial number in output stream:  6

I'm running X11.4 under Apollo Domain/OS  Version SR10.4 from an NCD X
terminal via an Apollo Domain Series 3500. The fonts are in snf format for
NCD, mkfontdir has been run and everything looks fine. Unfortunately, the
above happens.

Any help would be most welcome. Thanks in advance,

	Ed


 
-- 

Ed Wilkinson	RTA, Sydney, Australia		edwardw@xwdev.pandc.rta.oz.au
From: larry@tweety.cs.berkeley.edu (Larry Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Simple Script Language That Can Work With x?
Date: 17 Oct 1992 01:17:43 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: larry@cs.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: tweety.cs.berkeley.edu

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?
|> ... 

I don't know think it works on a PC, but Tcl/Tk is a scripting language
and X window toolkit that is public domain (ftp from sprite.berkeley.edu)
that does exactly what you want.  Here is a script that displays a window
with a "Hello World" button.  No bad for 3-4 lines of code.  To run the
script you need a program called "wish" for window shell that reads and
evaluates this stuff.  There's also a package called expect that runs
only in tcl which you can use to startup and interact with other processes
with dumb terminal interfaces.
	Larry
---------------
#!/usr/cluster/bin/wish -f
# Simple Tk script to create a button that prints "Hello, world".
# Click on the button to terminate the program.
# 
# The first line below creates the button, and the second line
# arranges for packer to manage the button's geometry, centering
# it in the application's main window.

button .hello -text "Hello, world" -command {
    puts stdout "Hello, world"; destroy .
}
pack append . .hello {top}
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Re: Xrn error messages??
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:54:10 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.150620.5253@watson.ibm.com>, 
johndew@watson.ibm.com (John Dewysocki) writes:
|> Could someone explain what the following error messages
|> from Xrn are and why they happen?
|> 
|> Tue Oct 13 10:52:16 1992: Bogus active file entry, skipping
|> 0000000000 0000000001 0000000002

watson.ibm.com doesn't seem to recognise John so I must post instead.

The error message means that your NNTP server has returned an
unparseable news group to the LIST command, it should return a list of
newsgroups with the format "group first last post" where group is the
name, first & last are the first & last available articles and post is
y or n depending on whether it is allowed to post to this group. So you
have been told that the group is 0000000000 with articles 1 & 2 but XRN
didn't like the lack of a post indicator. You can use telnet to look at
your NNTP server using "telnet $NNTPSERVER nntp" then type LIST and
then QUIT to exit, be warned though that there are nearly 2000 groups
now.

-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: holger@is.morgan.com (Holger Veith)
Subject: inseminate bitmap -> EPS
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:01:23 GMT


Is there a way to take a postscript file (in my case generated by a
graphing program) and to produce a bitmap file from that.

The reason is that I use FRAME (wordprocessor) and my EPS file does 
not have a display bitmap in it -- so imported images appear grey. 

What I want to do is to "artificially inseminate" the bitmap (which was
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
created from the postscipt file) into the postscript file.

Any ideas from you unix/medical gurus?


Holger.

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: xfig to PS (with special european char's) (Was: Re: xfig->hpgl)
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:31:45 GMT

envbvs@epb11.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:

>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. 
Good news !?

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 ?

Do I have to configure it somehow or do I have to send a PS init-file
to the printer, first ?

Thanks for your help,

Norbert.
-- 
Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch   UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich)
Subject: Re: DeskViewX & SUN/PV-Wave problem
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 00:08:54 GMT
Keywords: DeskViewX, XWindow application, PV-Wave, problem

In article <6OCT199209030351@mars.lerc.nasa.gov> family@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (ALLEN WILKINSON) writes:
>A question about X-terminal software on PC's.
>
>I have been trying to use Quarterdeck's DeskViewX on a 386 40 MHz PC.  I
>use FTP Software's PCTCP V2.05 pl4 as the TCP/IP kernel on top of an NDIS
>driver for an SMC 8013 EWC ehternet card.  I use either the OPEN LOOK or
>the DeskViewX window manager setup.
>
>I either telnet or rexec to a SUN SPARC 2 running OPEN WINDOWS.  I then
>start up PV-WAVE version 4.0 (command line version).  When I execute a
>WAVE program that creates an Xwindow and writes a digital video image to
>it,  the PC/DeskViewX display (under the best setup circumstance I can
>find => sufficient display resolution) the right hand 1/3rd of the
>circular image is blanked in the display.  I am not getting any
>significant technical support from QuarterDeck to pinpoint the source of
>the problem.


From your contacts with us, the situation seems to be that PV-WAVE is not
capable of displaying to your 640x480 gas plasma laptop.  An X program
SHOULD not act this way, but in reality there seem to be a few that do.


I'm sure that you will find, as we have, that this behavior will not change
using any other Xserver software or UN*X OS available.  The app just fails
on a server with too low a res.  I'm not really sure what you mean by 
"significant technical support" since a rewrite of PV-WAVE is probably the
only solution.  Personally, I'd love to rewrite the app.  I don't personally 
have the ability... but that's a different matter  :-|
>
>
>Do you know of a better X-terminal emulator for PC's (perhaps even tested
>with PV-WAVE)?
>

DESQview (note the spelling)/X is the best X environment for DOS...'nuff said.

Gary Rich   <garyrich@qdeck.com>

|  ..ok  sometimes I do speak for my employer...but I'm not now..  |
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Desqview/X
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:05:55 GMT
Organization: Saint Mary's University

Can Quaterdecks DESQVIEW/X run with 256 colors?  If so; how?

Thanks