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From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Subject: Re: Getting from showcase to rgb files to my Seiko printer
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 22:20:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.162931.19044@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
corkum@csri.toronto.edu (Brent Thomas Corkum) writes:
|> 
|>  My problem is that I want to use showcase to add text
|> to some images that I capture off the screen. I then want
|> to send them to my Seiko printer which excepts rgb files.
|> The problem is that showcase doesn't output rgb files
|> (why, I don't know???) but postscript files. Without
|> recapturing a showcase screen is there any way to EASILY
|> get from an image modified in showcase to a rgb file?

Showcase does not offer a "Save As...RGB file" option.
Perhaps a future version might offer this feature (I'm
not one of the Showcase authors, so I can't comment).
So right now, (you guessed it) use snapshot or imgsnap
to capture the image on the screen in a .rgb file.
imgsnap is one of the utilities which comes with the
ImageVision tools in 4.0.1 and beyond.

You should be able to use the imgprint program (also part
of the ImageVision tools) to print the resulting .rgb file
on your Seiko printer (imgprint supports the Seiko CH-5504
or CH-5514 printers).  imgprint allows you to orient and
position the image on the printed page, as well as providing
color correction features.

m.


-- 
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: jps8@po.CWRU.Edu (James P. Schwonek)
Subject: Re: Having windows pop up without click-to-place
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 02:06:21 GMT


Greetings:

I am interested in the answer to this also.

Thanks,
JIM SCHWONEK
-- 
James P. Schwonek
SGI Iris Administrator, Case Western Reserve Univeristy School of Medicine
root@dpbiris.phol.cwru.edu    jps8@po.cwru.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics
From: jack@shograf.com (Jack Ritter)
Subject: SGI yaodl file (*.ydl) format, binay to ASCII converters
Organization: SHOgraphics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:29:06 GMT
Followup-To: poster


We have some *.ydl files on our SGI Elan Work Station.
(vw, x29, etc.). At the risk of asking a commonly-
asked question, is there a descripton of the 
format of a .ydl file available? Are there binary
to ASCII Converters of any kind? Even minor hints
about the format would be helpful. Thanks.
From: lipman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Lipman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Looking for GL (like GIF) file viewer
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:58:07 GMT
Reply-To: lipman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Lipman)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

I'm looking for a GL (not as in Graphics Library) image
viewer.  GL is yet another image file format similar to
GIF, TIFF, PICT, etc.

Anybody have anything to do this on SGI or a good place
to look?

Thanks in advance, e-mail please

Bob Lipman
From: gordonc@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Questions about Explorer...
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:40:04 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre


Re: the subject of AVS vs. Explorer

What would be `nice' would be to have both systems understand (some of ?) the
other's modules in some way...

Are the paradigms that COMPLETELY different that this is unfeasible, or
might this happen in the future ? (i.e. AVS import Explorer modules, and
vice versa)

Would people want this ? or...perhaps this is being naive ;-}


-- 
e|p Gordon Cameron                      |     Phone:+44 31 650 5024(Rm. 2259)
c|c Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre |     Email: gordonc@epcc.ed.ac.uk
    oOo The University of Edinburgh oOo |    'So far so good, so now so what'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
Subject: Re: update on inst problem -- weirder and weirder (LONG)
Reply-To: mark@cita.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:44:34 GMT

Earlier today I wrote:

|                                         has anyone got a clue as to
| why nothing I do on the 4D/25 results in a "media error" situation
| on the CD, whereas "media error" messages pop up like mushrooms when
| some other machine on the network does a remote install?  What does
| cdromd do differently (or what is it told to do by inst running on
| the Indigo) that I haven't tried myself?

My brain must have slipped out of gear just before I wrote that part
about cdromd.  After all, cdromd's job is to mount/umount CDs, not to
transfer data from them.  (And inst seems to fetch the stuff it wants
via some variant of "rsh dd ...", for what it's worth.)

Investigation continues ...

Mark Bartelt                                              416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                           mark@cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                         mark@cita.utoronto.ca

"Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying." - Dylan, on laundry day
From: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Core File
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:47:07 GMT


I have found the source of my core file. Thank you Jason Ehrhart. But that
brought up another problem. The core was in /tmp and is caused by 'Xsgi'.
However, I am not running X (since I am in 3.3.1) so why is it trying to 
execute the X server? Would deleting /usr/bin/X11 solve this problem?

Tarun Kripalani (of Wounded Knee)
e-mail:   tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
Dept. of Psychology, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario.
From: robertl@cwi.nl (Robert van Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Noise reduction kits for Indigos.
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:43:55 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam


Free noise reduction kits for Indigos !
--------------------------------------

Although the Indigo is a dream machine when comparing the dB level
with the old 4D/35s, it still makes a lot of noise. Some people are
very sensitive to the high pitch whine coming from the disks and/or fan.

I've placed my Indigo in its thistle colored protection foam which is
used to transport the machine. This blocks almost all of the noise,
leaving lots of "breathing room" for the the machine itself. I fail to see
why this is worse than placing the machine between books on a bookshelf (as
advertised by SGI). This technique brings the noise down to approximately
Sun-SLC level, which is just about ok.

Note that this technique satisfies the "golden rule" (page 2-2 of the owner's
guide) : "Do not place the Indigo within a small, enclosed area, such
as a closet. It is important not to block the front or read vents."

Comments ? Are there any other techniques being used to bring the dB level
down ?


-- Robert van Liere
-- 
Robert van Liere, Department of Interactive Systems,
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Kruislaan 413,  1098 SJ  Amsterdam,  The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl | tel: +31-20-592-4118 | fax: +31-20-592-4199
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: How to move internal disk into top slot 4D/20 ?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 19:38:24 GMT

In <1992Apr10.093002@gojira.gsfc.nasa.gov> sullivan@gojira.gsfc.nasa.gov (dan sullivan) writes:


| 	I want to move an internally mounted 380 mb hard disk in an
| Iris File in a 4D20 into the top slot of another 4D20. Can I just remove
| the disk and slide it into the slot, or do I need special mounting brackets?
| The Iris file's front cover does not come off, so you have to tear it
| apart to get at the disk so I assume it does not just slide in there.
| 	I would rather not have the Iris file in my office, since it takes
| up more room, and adds the extra fan noise, and I have the top slot in  my
| 4D20 empty.
| 	If I need mounting brackets, where can I buy them, and at what cost?
|            	Thanks,

Depends on the rev iris file you have.  The newer ones use the same
rails as the PI.  These are the ones that have the front cover that
lets you get to the left side internal disk.  The two disks on the
right slide out the back.

The older revs had mounts like the older internal PI disks, so you
would need to buy the rails; I think we finally got them on the price
list, but I won't swear to it.
--
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: randy@tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu (randy frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SGI please fix this f77 bug (or explain why it is correct)
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:03:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility

Hello,
	There still seems to be a bug in f77 which prevents me from using
the index intrinsic on strings stored in structures.

I illustrate:

tessa % cat ll.f
        Implicit None

        Structure /test/
                Character*80    str
        End Structure

        Record  /test/  testvar
        Character*80    testchar

        testvar.str = 'This is a test'
        testchar = 'This is a test'

        Type *, index(testvar.str,' ')
        Type *, index(testchar,' ')

        End
tessa % f77 ll.f
tessa % a.out
            0 <--- I would have hoped this would be 5 also
            5
tessa % uname -a
IRIX tessa 4.0.1 11150233 IP5

	I had seen this error a long time ago (IRIX 3.2) and had assumed it
was fixed in 4.0.x but it appears I was wrong.  If this is proper FORTRAN77
behavior please explain to me why it is.  

Thanks,
--
rjf.
Randy Frank, Engineer                       |  (319) 335-6712       
University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility |  73 EMRB              
randy@tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu                   |  Iowa City, IA 52242
From: ringrose@femur.ai.mit.edu (Robert Ringrose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Sun images on an SGI
Summary: Need to display TIFF files created on a Sun on our SGI
Keywords: n
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:28:38 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab

Short version:  We need (1) a TIFF or Sun Raster viewer or (2) a description
	of one of those file formats.
(email responses, please)

This topic has been beaten to death before, but I tuned out of the thread.

However....

Recently we received a board which will grab video frames on a sun and store
them on disk in a variety of formats, including Sun Raster and TIFF.

Getting to the data from our Personal Iris 4d35TG (os 4.0.3) isn't a problem
(fun automounter) BUT we need to put the data on the screen and be able to send
it to our write-once videodisk.



	- Robert Ringrose
	  (ringrose@ai.mit.edu)

"There's always one more bu6."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mtoy@mycool.asd.sgi.com (Michael Toy)
Subject: Re: Want to export an X-window, but not the GL window
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:54:36 GMT

In <1992Apr12.233714.4899@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven P. Miale) writes:

>Under IRIX 3.2, we were EXPORTing the DISPLAY of a program we used
>that opened both a GL window on the logged-into SGI and an
>X window on whatever we set the DISPLAY to be. This is exactly what
>we wanted.

>Unfortunately, SGI has "fixed" it so if I export the display, it
>tries to display the GL window on that particular Sparc, and
>that of course fails.

>We want it back the old way - an X-window displayed on another
>machine and the actual GL application on the SGI. How do I do this?

I can think of two ways:
	1) getenv("DISPLAY"), store it, then use "putenv("DISPLAY=:0")"
	   before you call your first gl thing.
	
	2) just before you call gl stuff, call dglopen(":0", DGLLOCAL)
From: dalel@radian.uucp (Dale Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: How do I create/find libfgl_s.a?
Keywords: libfgl_s.a gl X Fortran
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:53:41 GMT
Followup-To: sender
Organization: Radian Corporation, Austin, TX


How do I locate or create the shared FORTRAN gl library?  I have been
sent some software which requires it.  Should it be on the ftn distribution
tape?  Please reply via e-mail.
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|  ~  / / /\ \ | [<>] || | / /\ \ | \ \ |   radian!dalel@natinst.com
|_|~|_\/_|~~|_\|_____/ |_|/_|~~|_\|_|\__|   Box 201088 Austin, TX 78720 
C   O   R   P   O   R   A   T   I   O   N   All opinions solely my own
From: garvin@jupiter1.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Disks for 4D/440VGX
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:35:12 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University


	We're in the process of acquiring a 4D/440VGX and are looking into
third party storage.  Specifically, we are examining storage solutions from
SGI, Falcon Systems, and NPI.  The system will have one SGI "Differential SCSI
Dual Channel Controller for Trays Internal to POWER Center Rack" (PN PR-DCSC)
in it, and two POWER store drive trays (total 8 drives, 4 per channel).  Due
to the cost of the trays we are considering purchasing a similar differential
tray offered by Falcon.  As for the drives, SGI offers the Seagate Wren 8
(1.65 gig), NPI the Wren 8 and Wren 9 (1.65 and 2 gig), and Falcon the
Micropolis 1528 and 1548 (1.65 and 2 gig).

	My question to the net is thus: are there any comments on the above
hardware?  Has anyone used the Falcon drive trays?  Having heard some rumors
of partially implemented SCSI command sets and the need of the above system
to have a complete command set, would/have the above disks worked for others?
Does anyone have an alternative solution?  Thanks in advance for any help.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Michael Garvin					garvin@jupiter1.mae.ncsu.edu
Mars Mission Research Center, NCSU		(919) 515-5250
From: trich@crow.omni.co.jp (Timothy Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: bridged gateway
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:04:29 GMT
Reply-To: trich@crow.omni.co.jp
Organization: Omnibus Japan, Inc.

Can some SGI network guru tell me if this will work ?
                                                                                                     
I want to make my main server into a gateway so it feeds two networks,
then bridge the two networks so that the server is not preoccupied
with forarding packets.

I think I need to do the following things.

1) Configure the bridge to discard all packets destined for the server

2) Reconfigure the kernal on the server so that it does not forward
   packets, ( ipforwarding = 0 ).

Should I have routed running on the server ?
Can I have the same hosts database for all machines so that I can freely
move hosts from network A to network B ?

                      ___________                                       
                     |           |
         network A   |  server   |   network B
               ______| (4D380)   |_____
              |      |___________|     |
              |        _________       |
              |       | RETIX   |      |
              |_______| Bridge  |______|
              |       |_________|      |
    host 1 ___|                        |___ host 4
              |                        |
    host 2 ___|                        |___ host 5
              |                        |
    host 3 ___|                        |___ host 6
              |                        |
              |                        |
              :                        :
              :                        :
                                        
             etc                      etc

Note: the bridge can understand "Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol"
~
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From: p_misiak@unibw-hamburg.de (Carlo Misiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Play sound on 4D/35 running 3.3.2?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:58:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: unibw-ha.1992Apr9.155842.18433
Organization: University of Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

HA ! This reminds me ...

\begin{quote}

In <9112160907.AA21254@rzt03> p_misiak@unibwh.UUCP (Misiak) writes:

| Hi: After beeing informed from technical service that the audio boards for a
| 4D/35 wil be delivered really soon now (3 weeks ago), I now heard the
| (sa[i]les) argument that "audio is not standard for a 4D35 because IRIX 3.3.2
| (with which the machine came) does not support audio".  Question to customers
| from Germany: What was your experience getting your boards ?

This is a misunderstanding on someone's part, or perhaps a translation
problem.  3.3.2T (4D/35 support 1.0) was the initial 4D/35 support
tape.  It had no audio support in it.  3.3.3T (4D/35 support 1.1) was
the 2nd 4D/35 support tape, and was released at the same time as the
audio board; this release has full support for the audio features, in a
form similar to 4.0.1, although without as many features.

Both releases (3.3.2T and 3.3.3T) are 4D/35 hardware specific (only;
that is, they can't be installed on other system types), and either can
be installed on top of a 3.3.2 software base.  3.3.3T can also be
installed on top of 3.3.3, should you wish to do so.

I have to agree that the naming scheme is less than ideal.  There was
also a 3.3.3L tape for the initial shipment of the 4D/4X0 series to
further confuse the issue.
--

     Dave Olson
----============----

\end{quote}

That was Dec 16^th.

Still, "Stille". No audio. No board. That's life. That's business.


Some more info ...

\begin{quote}

| When you get the 4D35 upgrade, you also get an audio upgrade, except the
| tools that come with 4.0.. (audio tools) are not provided for 3.3... and if
| some software developers are not at 4.0 you can't migrate.

You want to get the 4D/35 support tape 1.1 (also known as 3.3.3T).  You
should have gotten it along with the audio board.

| Meanwhile I need some specs about the audio board since none are provided --\
| nothing.  

The audio library man pages (in hardcopy with 3.3.3T, as well as online)
give a good overview of the capabilities of the hardware, as well as
the software.
--

     Dave Olson
----============----

\end{quote}


Thanks to Dave Olson. 

What to german sales reps ?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.question
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Socket, binding to reserve port - SGI, IRIX 4.0.0
Keywords: socket
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 00:15:36 GMT

In <1992Apr14.220729.29242@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:

| In article <jhpcsl8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >As you might have guessed from one of the bug groups included, and Vernon's
| >employer, IRIX lacks the feature.  We never picked it up when AT&T and
| >BSD did so.
| 
| Well, let's give discredit where discredit is due, then, and not blame
| "the Wizards of New Jersey".

No, Vernon was correct, we *did* get this misfeature from AT&T (SVR3.0).  What we
did *not* do (and others may also have not done) was integrate a later
change (BSD also did this at some point) to clear those bits.  We will
undoubtedly do so now that we have noticed the change.

For those systems where you have significant local changes (and bug fixes!),
you don't simply drop in all the changes from a new source release.  As a
result, sometimes you do miss changes; although it appears this one is
only in SVR4, and we aren't shipping SVR4 based systems.

As I look through the SVR4 source, it appears to me that in fact USL
has only fixed this for UFS filesystems, not for S5.  It was only
a quick scan, so I won't swear to it.
--
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: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Break in attempts continue
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:12:05 GMT
Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

In <29909@adm.brl.mil> macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod) writes:

>As a follow-up to yesterday's message, the hacker tried to get in again this
>morning, cycling through the guest, tutor, uucp, nuucp, lp, and 4Dgift
>accounts, along with his/her own name (dumb or what?).

>A third user id has showed up, again from u-strasbg, 

>	philippe@gsi.u-strasbg.fr

>but the pattern is the same as for the other two.

>Are we the only ones begin hit, or has anyone else noticed anything?

I haven't spotted any break in attempts, but we are getting almost daily 
anon ftp logins from u-strasbg.fr, machines md1, md2 and turing.  The logins
never use a name, always just ftp or guest.

We don't log failed attempts -- I suppose we should.  Can someone remind me
how to set this up?  I know it was discussed on the net, but I mislaid it.
-- 
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca