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XFIG - Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
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Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).
This file contains some notes about installing xfig, the directory
'Examples' contains some example figures and the 'Doc' directory contains
some further documentation including the manual in troff -man format.
Please report any bugs, fixes, contributions, etc. to:
Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
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System Requirements:
o 68020, 68881
o 3MB RAM or more
o DaggeX 1.0b (NOT included)
o ixemul.library (NOT included)
############################
# XFig for the CBM Amiga #
############################
To run XFig on the Amiga you need DaggeX, a free distributable
X-Windows system for the Amiga. I use DaggeX V 1.0b, which I
got from an Aminet-site (archive name is DaggeXbin-1.0b.lha).
You also need to copy CompkeyDB to usr:lib/x11/xfig/, and ixemul.library
to your libs: drawer. (CompkeyDB can be found in usr/lib/x11/xfig).
DaggeX runs fine on my A3000/25, although it consumes LOTS
of ram (XFig started with DaggeX for A2024 screen (1024x1024 4color)
consumes about 2MB!
I did recompile the amiga version of XFig from Suamor
(zxmrd01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) with gcc 2.6.0 optimized
for the 68020/68881 and with the O3 flag set. But I couldn't link it with
the 68020 option, because libm.a for this option didn't work with my gcc
installation, so I had to remove it for linking.
This version of XFig is VERY FAST compared to the former version from
Suamor, but also produces the "free: end of block corrupt" message
(from AmigaDOS) if you quit (At least on my Amiga). It takes about one
minute from invocation till it is useable. This version is about 1000(!)
times faster than the former one!
If you don't have a 3 button mouse, (which is very important for the
usage of XFig) I recommend you to use the program `midmoose' from Lee
Kindness, which simulates the third button via F10 (or any other program
which does the same job).
If you want to recompile XFig
o get gcc
o get DaggeX (for testing)
o get DaggeX X Windows libs
o get X11 include files
It took about two hours to recompile XFig, but the result is awesome.
##########################################################
####### XFig will only run on Amigas with 68020/68881 or higher! #######
##########################################################
Invocation:
To start XFig, first start DaggeX and wait till the window manager
got activated. After that, invoke XFig with the script `start_fig'.
This is very important, since every client must have the same task
priority like the window manager (Priority is set to 0, change this,
if your window manager runs with a different task priority).
Gerhard Leibrock, October 1994
leibrock@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de
fach5@cipsol.cs.uni-sb.de
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Neuhaeuselerstr. 12, 66459 Kirkel, Tel.: 06849/6134, Germany
As always: Use at your own risk!! No warranty!
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Bugs:
If you try to write text in XFig, it exits immedeatly. (Why?)