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- Subject: 59)! Where can I get OSF/Motif?
-
- You can obtain either OSF/Motif source or binaries from a number of
- vendors.
- Motif 1.2.3 source is now available; it is based on X11R5.
- Motif 1.1 is based on the R4.18 Intrinsics and is finished [7/92] at
- 1.1.5.
- A conformant Motif implementation not based on OSF-derived source is
- being developed by fox@crisp.demon.co.uk (Paul Fox).
- An OSF/Motif source license must be obtained from OSF before source can
- be obtained from the Open Software Foundation or any value-added vendor for
- any version. Call the Direct Channels Desk at OSF at 617-621-7300 for ordering
- information.
-
- Various hardware vendors produce developer's toolkits of binaries,
- header files, and documentation; check your hardware vendor, particularly if
- that vendor is an OSF member.
- In addition, independent binary vendors produce Motif toolkits for
- machines for which Motif is not supported by a vendor; the kits include varied
- levels of bug-fixing and support for shared libraries and are based on widely
- divergent version of Motif:
- Quest Windows (408-496-1900) sells kits for Suns, as well;
- IXI (+44 223 462 131) offers kits for Sun3 and Sun4.
- NSL (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers kits for the Sun 3
- and Sun 4.
- Bluestone Consulting, Inc. (609-727-4600) offers Motif 1.1.5 & 1.2 for
- SunOS, and Motif 1.2 (X11R5) for Solaris 2.1 & 2.2.
- ICS (617-62-0060) makes several binary kits, notably for Sun, DEC.
- HP and DEC have announced support for Motif on Sun systems.
- Unipalm (+44-954-211-797) currently offers for Sun systems a Motif
- Development Kit including X11R4 and based on Motif 1.1.2. The US distributor is
- Expert Object Corp (708-926-8500).
- BIM ships Motif 1.1 binaries for Suns. Shared library support is
- included. Contact Alain Vermeiren (av@sunbim.be) or Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be)
- at +32(2)759.59.25 (Fax : +32(2)759.47.95) (Belgium).
- SILOGIC (+33 61.57.95.95) ships Motif 1.2 and Motif 1.1 on Sun
- machines.
- S.I. Systems offers Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1; info: 1-800-755-8649 in
- USA and Canada.
- Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact
- ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333, UniVision (UK) Ltd. (44) 628 82 22 81) ships an
- implementation of X11R4 and Motif 1.1.2 (including a shared-library
- implementation of libXm.a) for the 386/486 Unix market. Motif 1.1.2 is
- also available for Sun Sparc based workstations. It has also announced
- Motif 1.2 for Solaris and Linux systems.
- in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers development and user
- kits for SunOS and Solaris.
-
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- Subject: 60) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5?
-
- Motif 1.2 is based on X11R5.
- Motif 1.1, available in source form from OSF as of August 1990, uses
- the "vanilla" X11R4 Intrinsics, where "vanilla" means "with just a few
- patches"; the file fix-osf which OSF distributes is obsoleted by the
- Consortium's patches 15-17. The file fix-osf-1.1.1 distributed with the
- 1.1.1 version or its subsequent modification needs to be applied after fix-18,
- though.
-
- Motif 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 will work with X11R5 if X11R5 is compiled with
- -DMOTIFBC; 1.1.4 and later should work with the vanilla R5, although there are
- some known new geometry-management problems.
-
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- Subject: 61) Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK?
-
- Sun's XView has a SunView-style API. Version 3.2 is available (7/93)
- from xview.ucdavis.edu in /pub/XView/XView3.2 or ftp.x.org in
- /contrib/xview3.2.
-
- XView and X binaries for the Sun 386i ("roadrunner") are available for
- ftp from svin01.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.70), directory pub/X11R4_386i.
- Supported binaries of XView 2.0 or 3.0 include:
-
- XView for non-Sun Platforms (domestic and selected international vendors).
- Several are also available from Sun; contact your local sales office.
-
- Amiga GfxBase, Inc. 1881 Ellwell Drive
- (AmigaDOS) (408) 262-1469 Milpitas, CA 95035
- Fax: (408) 262-8276
-
- SGI
- Sony (NEWS-OS)
- IBM RS/6000
- HP 9000
- DECstation UniPress Software 2025 Lincoln Highway
- (Ultrix) (908) 985-8000 Edison, NJ 08817
- Fax: (908) 287-4929
-
- UniPress Software, Ltd. PO Box 70
- 44-624-661-8850 Viking House
- Fax: 44-624-663-453 Nelson Street
- Douglas, Isle of Man
- United Kingdom
-
- DEC VAXstation TGV 603 Mission Street
- (VMS) (800) TGV-3440 Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- (408) 427-4366
- Fax: (408) 427-4365
-
- Unipalm Ltd. 145-147 St. Neots Road
- 44-0954-211797 Hardwick
- Fax: 44-0954-211244 Cambridge CB3 7QJ
- England
-
- Intel 386 Quarterdeck Office 150 Pico Boulevard
- (DOS) Systems Santa Monica, CA 90405
- (213) 392-9851
- Fax: (213) 399-3802
-
- Intel 386 SunSoft Corporation 6601 Center Drive West
- (Interactive 310-348-8649 Suite 700
- UNIX and Los Angeles, CA 90045
- SCO UNIX)
-
- Stardent Scripps Institute Clinic MB-5
- (Stellix OS Fax: (619) 554-4485 10666 N. Torrey Pines Road
- and Titan OS) Include mailstop MB-5 La Jolla, CA 92057
- By ftp: 192.42.82.8 in pub/binary/{Xview.README,XView.tar.Z}
-
- AT&T's OPEN LOOK GUI 3.0 Xt-based toolkit is now generally available
- [2/92]; contact 1-800-828-UNIX#544 for information. Binaries are produced
- for SPARC systems by International Quest Corporation (408-988-8289). A version
- of the toolkit is also produced under the name OLIT by Sun.
- More recent versions of OLIT have been ported to IBM 6000 and DEC MIPS
- by both UniPress and ICS. OLIT is also available for HP from Melillo Consulting
- (908-873-0075). MJM (Somerset, NJ) makes OLIT 4.0 for HP 7xx series running
- HPUX 8.0, DECstations, and RS/6000s [thanks to Joanne Newbauer,
- jo@attunix.att.com, 908-522-6677.]
-
- Sun is shipping OpenWindows 3.0; contact your local sales
- representative for more details; the package includes toolkit binaries and
- header files.
-
- ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) extensible C++-based Object
- Interface Library, which supports run-time selection between Open Look or
- Motif, is available from 303-678-4626. [5/92]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 62)! Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications)
-
- The MIT Software Center ships the X Test Suite on tape.
-
- A multi-threaded version of Xlib based on X11R5 patch 12 is now
- available for anonymous FTP from (new version 1/93):
- DEC on gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2) in /pub/X11/contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
- MIT on ftp.x.org in /contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
- Note that this source code will not become the Xlib used in X11R6, although
- the Consortium is planning to make Xlib thread-safe with that release.
-
- HP has made available drivers to permit the building of the X11R5
- sample server on the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations; the files are on
- ftp.x.org in ~ftp/contrib/R5.HP.SRV. [8/92]
-
- The Edinburgh University Computing Service and European X User Group
- have created an on-line index of public domain X software. The index is
- available through gopher and provides an index of the ftp.x.org/contrib
- archive, the comp.sources.x archive and various X software found around the
- internet. The service holds manual pages, README files , etc which can be
- browsed through. A keyword search of the manual pages is also provided.
- Information: xindex@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk.
-
- User-contributed software is distributed through the newsgroup
- comp.sources.x, moderated by Chris Olson (chris@imd.sterling.com); also check
- that group for posting information.
-
- Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) has been creating a list of freely-
- available X sources. The list is stored on ftp.x.org in contrib as
- x-source-list.Z. It lists the main storage locations for the program and
- international sites from which it may be ftp'ed.
-
- The machine ftp.x.org has a great deal of user-contributed software in
- the contrib/ directory; a good deal of it is present in current or earlier
- versions on the X11R3, X11R4, and X11R5 contrib tapes. There are also
- directories for fixes to contrib software. The file on ftp.x.org in
- contrib/0ftpxorg.dir is a quick overall index of the software in that area,
- provided by Daniel Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu).
-
- These sites used to and may still mirror ftp.x.org and are of particular
- use for Australasia: Anonymous ftp: ftp.Adelaide.EDU.AU; ACSnet Fetchfile:
- sirius.ua.oz.
-
- The material on giza.cis.ohio-state.edu, which tends to duplicate
- the ftp.x.org archives, is also available via anonymous UUCP from osu-cis, at
- TB+ and V.32 speeds. Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu (same as osu-cis!uucp)
- for instructions. [the archive is now maintained by Karl Kleinpaste]
-
- A new west-coast UUCP X11 Archive is administered by Mark Snitily
- (mark@zok.uucp) and contains the full X11 distribution, the XTEST
- distribution, an entire archive of comp.sources.x and other goodies.
- The machine zok has a TB+ modem which will connect to 19.2K, 2400,
- 1200 baud (in that order). The anonymous UUCP account is UXarch with password
- Xgoodies. The modem's phone number is 408-996-8285.
- A sample Systems (or L.sys) entry might be:
- zok Any ACU 19200 4089968285 in:--in: UXarch word: Xgoodies
- To get a current listing of the files that are available, download
- the file "/usrX/ls-lR.Z".
- A full subject index of the comp.sources.x files is available in the
- file "/usrX/comp.sources.x/INDEX".
- The machine has just the one modem, so please do not fetch large
- amounts of data at one sitting.
- [courtesy Mark Snitily, 2/90]
-
- In addition, UUNET Source Archives (703-876-5050) tracks comp.sources.x and
- provides 800MB+ of compressed programs on 6250 bpi tapes or 1/4" tapes. It
- also mirrors ftp.x.org/contrib in its packages/X directory.
-
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- Subject: 63)! Where can I get interesting widgets?
-
- The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) library sponsored by Brian Totty
- (totty@cs.uiuc.edu) is now [2/93] available on a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1)
- in pub/fwf-v3.53.shar.Z. The set of widgets there is intended to form the basis
- for future contributions. To be added to the discussion list, send to
- listserv@cs.uiuc.edu a message saying "subscribe <listname> <your-full-name>"
- where <listname> is one of free-widgets-announce, free-widgets-development, or
- free-widgets-bugs.
- An object like the Windows "combo box" is part of the Xm++ class
- library.
- Harald Albrecht's (albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) Motif implementation
- of the ComboBox object from MSWindows is available on
- ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de in pub/packages/ComboBox.
- A library by Jean Michel Leon (leon@sophia.inria.fr) which adds
- "inset" facilities to Xt is available on ftp.x.org in
- contrib/insetlib-0.2.tar.gz.
- The XmBoss widget by Doyle Davidson (doyle@ps.atl.sita.int) is a
- generic Motif 1.1 layout manager that implements geometry management through
- application callbacks; sources are on ftp.x.org.
- The Xew widget set by Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi) contains
- widgets for data representation. Version 1.4 [5/93] is on ftp.x.org in
- contrib/Xew-1.5.tar.Z.
- Peter Ware's Xo "Open Widget" set, which has Motif-like functionality,
- is on archive.cis.ohio-state.edu as pub/Xo/Xo-2.1.tar.Z [8/92].
- The AthenaTools Plotter Widget Set Version 6-beta [7/92] maintained by
- Peter Klingebiel (klin@iat.uni-paderborn.de) includes many graph and plotting
- widgets; a copy is on ftp.x.org in plotter.v6b.tar.Z, plotter.doc.tar.Z,
- plotter.afm.tar.Z, and plotter.README. The latest versions may in fact be on
- ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32) in /unix/tools, which appears to contain
- version 6.0.7.
- An advance version of Marc Quinton's Motif port of the FWF MultiList
- widget is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr:pub/MultiList.tar.Z [143.196.9.31].
- Additional widgets are available on the contrib/ portion of the X11R4
- tapes; these include the Xcu set.
- Paul Johnston's (johnston@spc5.jpl.nasa.gov) X Control Panel widget set
- emulates hardware counterparts; sources are on ftp.x.org in Xc-1.3.tar.Z.
- O'Reilly Volume 4, Doug Young's book, the Asente/Swick book, and Jerry
- Smith's "Object-oriented Programming with the X Window System Toolkits" all
- include details on writing widgets and include several useful widgets; sources
- are typically on ftp.x.org and/or UUNET.
- The Dirt interface builder includes the libXukc widet set which extends
- the functionality of Xaw.
- A graph widget and other 2D-plot and 3D-contour widgets by Sundar
- Narasimhan (sundar@ai.mit.edu) are available from ftp.ai.mit.edu as
- /pub/users/sundar/graph.tar.Z. The graph widget has been updated [3/91]
- with documentation and histogram capabilities.
- A graph widget is available from ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in
- pub/Graph.tar.Z; it uses a segment list for drawing and hence supports a zoom
- operation.
- Ken Lee's Xm widget (demo) that uses Display PostScript to draw labels
- at a non-horizontal angle is on ftp.x.org in contrib/dpslabel.tar.Z.
- The Table widget (works like troff TBL tables) is available in several
- flavors, one of which is with the Widget Creation Library release
- (ftp.x.org:/contrib/Wcl-2.5.tar.Z).
- Bell Communications Research has developed a Matrix widget for complex
- application layouts; it's on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xbae-widgets-3.8.tar.Z [2/93.
- The distribution also includes a "caption" widget to associate labels with
- particular GUI components. (7/92)
- Dan Connolly's (connolly@convex.COM ??) XcRichText interprets RTF data;
- it's on ftp.x.org as contrib/XcRichText-1.2.tar.Z.
- The XmGraph Motif-based graphing widget is on iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu in
- /comp.hp/GUI_classic/XmGraph.tar.Z although it may not be stable.
- A TeX-style Layout widget by Keith Packard is described in the
- proceedings of the 7th X Technical Conference (O'Reilly X Resource volume 5);
- source is available on ftp.x.org contrib/Layout.tar.Z.
-
- A version of Lee Iverson's (leei@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) image-viewing tool
- is available as contrib/vimage-0.9.3.tar.Z on ftp.x.org. The package also
- includes an ImageViewPort widget and a FileDialog widget. [12/91;5/92]
- An MPEG viewer by Jan Newmarch (jan@ise.canberra.edu.au) is on
- ftp.x.org in mpeg_wdgt2.0b.tar; it requires Motif.
- In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson (rthomson@dsd.es.com) is
- available on ftp.x.org as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it
- easier to use PEX in Xt-based programs.
- A Motif port of the Xaw clock widget is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr
- in pub/Clock.tar.Z.
- A modification of the Xaw ScrollBar widget which supports the arrowhead
- style of other toolkits is on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xaw.Scrollbar.mta.Z.
-
- A release of the R5 Xaw widgets with a 3D visual appearance by Kaleb
- Keithley (now kaleb@x.org) is available on ftp.x.org in
- contrib/Xaw3d/R5/Xaw3d-0.6.tar.Z. The library, which is binary-compatible
- with Xaw, implements a 3D subclass which handles the extra drawing.
-
- The Andrew User Interface System supplies an extensive collection of
- widgets including full-blown editors for text, rasters, figures, tables, and
- so on.
-
- Also:
- The Xmt "Motif Tools", Dovetail Systems's shareware library of 9
- widgets and many convenience functions, is available from ftp.x.org:contrib
- and ftp.ora.com:/pub/xbook/Xmt in xmt-README and xmt-1.0.tar.Z.
- The Xtra XWidgets set includes widgets for pie and bar charts, XY
- plots, Help, spreadsheets, data entry forms, and line and bar graphs. Contact
- Graphical Software Technology at 310-328-9338 (info@gst.com) for information.
- The XRT/graph widget, available for Motif, XView and OLIT, displays
- X-Y plots, bar and pie charts, and supports user-feedback, fast updates and
- PostScript output. Contact KL Group Inc. at 416-594-1026 (info@klg.com).
- The Acme Widget Set from EDB (212-978-8822) includes a 2D graph widget
- that can be configured like a stripchart.
- A set of data-entry widgets for Motif is available from Marlan
- Software, 713-467-1458 (gwg@world.std.com).
- A set of graph widgets is available from Expert Database Systems
- (212-370-6700).
- A set of OSF/Motif compound widgets and support routines for 2D
- visualization is available from Ms Quek Lee Hian, National Computer Board,
- Republic of Singapore; Tel : (65)7720435; Fax : (65)7795966;
- leehian@iti.gov.sg, leehian@itivax.bitnet.
- The ICS Widget Databook includes a variety of control widgets and
- special-purpose widgets, available on a variety of platforms. Information:
- 617-621-0060, info@ics.com.
- Information on graphing tools may be obtained from info@TomSawyer.com
- (+1-510-848-0853, fax: +1-510-848-0854).
- in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers the "grinx" widget for
- drawing vector graphics with dynamic attributes such as blinking and rotation.
-
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- Subject: 64) Where can I get a good file-selector widget?
-
- The Free Widget Foundation set offers a FileSelector widget, with
- separate directory path and file listing windows, and the FileComplete, which
- has emacs-style file completion and ~ expansion.
- Other available file-requestor widgets include the XiFileSelector from
- Iris Software's book, the xdbx file-selector extracted by David Nedde
- (daven@ivy.wpi.edu), and the FileNominator from the aXe distribution.
- The GhostView, Xfig, and vimage packages also include file-selector
- widgets.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 65) Where can I find a hypertext widget in source code?
-
- A hypertext widget was posted to comp.sources.x. It can be found in
- volume 16 of the archives at ftp.uu.net under the name "hman". The
- distribution includes a hypertext widget with both Athena and Motif
- compatability (set at compile-time) and hman, a Motif-based man reference page
- reader that uses the widget to look up other man topics. [Joe Shelby
- (shelby@dirac.physics.jmu.edu); 6/93]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 66)! What widget is appropriate to use as a drawing canvas?
-
- Some widget sets have a widget particularly for this purpose -- a
- WorkSpace or DrawingArea which doesn't display anything but lets your Xt
- application know when it has been re-exposed, resized, and when it has received
- user key and mouse input.
- The best thing to do for other widget sets -- including the Athena set
- -- is to create or obtain such a widget; this is preferable to drawing into a
- core widget and grabbing events with XtAddEventHandler(), which loses a number
- of benefits of Xt and encapsulation of the functionality .
- The publicly-available programs xball and xpic include other versions.
- The Display widget in the XG library (libXG-2.0.tar.Z on ftp.x.org) provides a
- generic way of drawing graphics in a widget.
- The Athena Widget manual (mit/doc/Xaw/Template in the R5 distribution)
- includes a tutorial and source code to a simple widget which is suitable for
- use.
- The Free Widget Foundation set contains a Canvas widget.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 67) What is the current state of the world in X terminals?
-
- Jim Morton (jim@applix.com) posts quarterly to comp.windows.x a list of
- manufacturers and terminals; it includes pricing information.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 68) Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen?
-
- Labtam (+61 3 587 1444, fax +61 3 580 5581) offers a 19" Surface
- Acoustic Wave touch-screen option on its Xengine terminals.
- Tektronix (1-800-225-5434) provides an X terminal with the Xtouch
- touch-screen. This terminal may also be resold through Trident Systems
- (703-273-1012).
- Metro Link (305-970-7353) supports the EloGraphics Serial Touch Screen
- Controllers.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 69) Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)?
-
- X11R5 already provides a server to many 386/486 *Unixes* with
- support for many of the popular video graphics adapters; and for other
- non-MSDOS PCs you can obtain a server from these sources:
-
- XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which
- was distributed with X11R5; it includes many bug fixes, speed improvements, and
- other enhancements. Source for version 2.0 [10/93] is on ftp.x.org in
- pub/contrib, ftp.physics.su.oz.au in /XFree86, and ftp.win.tue.nl in
- /pub/XFree86. In addition, binaries are on ftp.physics.su.oz.au, and
- ftp.win.tue.nl among other systems. Info: x386@physics.su.oz.au.
- Note: this package obsoletes Glenn Lai's Speedup patches for an
- enhanced X11R5 server for 386 UNIXes with ET4000 boards (SpeedUp.tar.Z on
- ftp.x.org).
-
- Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact
- ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333) ships an implementation of X11R4 for the 386/486 Unix
- market.
-
- SGCS offers X386 Version 1.3, based on Thomas Roell's X11R5 two-headed
- server, in binary and source form. Information: 408-255-9665, info@sgcs.com.
-
- ISC, SCO, UHC, and other well-known operating-system vendors typically
- offer X servers.
-
- For MSDOS PCs:
-
- Daniel J. McCoy (mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov) has started posting monthly a
- list of non-UNIX servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas; it includes pricing
- information. The current copy is kept on ftp.x.org in contrib as
- XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z.
-
- An article on PC X servers appears in the March 2, 1992 Open Systems Today.
-
- Also of possible use:
-
- Net-I from Programit (212-809-1707) enables communication among
- DOS, OS/2 and Unix machines and can be used to display PC sessions on your
- Unix X display.
-
-
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- Subject: 70) Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS?
-
- eXodus from White Pine Software (603-886-9050) runs on any Mac with
- at least 1MB of memory and supports intermixing of X and Mac windows and
- also supports the SHAPE extension. Version 5.0 became available 10/93.
-
- Apple's MacX runs on MacPlus or newer machines with >= 2MB of memory
- and system software 6.0.4 or later. Version 1.1 is fully X11R4-based. It
- supports full ICCCM-compatible cut and paste of text AND graphics between the
- Macintosh and X11 worlds, the SHAPE extension (including SHAPEd windows on the
- Macintosh desktop), an optional built-in ICCCM-compliant window manager, X11R4
- fonts and colors, a built-in BDF font compiler, and built-in standard
- colormaps. Upgrades to MacX are available by ftp from aux.support.apple.com.
- Info: 408-996-1010.
- [Note: MacX is also the name of a vax-mac xmodem transfer utility.]
-
- Machten sells a MacOS X server based on R4 and also a Mach
- implementation for the Macintosh, including X and Motif support.
-
- Also:
-
- Liken (1-800-245-UNIX or info@qualix.com) software enables monochrome
- 68000 Mac applications to run on a SPARC system running X.
- Xport (1-800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200) or xport@qualix.com) enables Mac
- applications to display on an X-based workstation by turning the Mac into an X
- client.
- Intercon has a product called Planet-X which enables Mac applications
- to display on an X server.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 71) Where can I get X for the Amiga?
-
- The new Amiga 3000 machines offer an X server and OPEN LOOK tools and
- libraries on a full SVR4 implementation.
-
- GfxBase, Inc. provides "X11 R4.1" for the AmigaDos computer; it
- contains X11R4 clients, fonts, etc., and a Release 4 color server. An optional
- programmer's toolkit includes the header files, libraries, and sample programs.
- Info from GfxBase, 408-262-1469. [Dale Luck
- (uunet!{cbmvax|pyramid}!boing!dale); 2/91]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 72)! Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home?
-
- Until LBX (q.v.) is more common, an option includes NCD's PC-XView
- with PC-Xremote.
- sxpc 1.2 (by Robert Andrew Ryan (rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu)) is a simple X
- protocol compressor. Sources are on atk.itc.cmu.edu (in sxpc-1.0.shar.Z), or
- from ftp.x.org (in contrib/sxpc-1.2.shar.Z)
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 73) Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation?
-
- The R5 server should be among the fastest available for most machines.
-
- Sun sells a "Direct Xlib" product which improves rendering for
- applications running on the same machine as the X server; the replacement Xlib
- library accesses graphics hardware directly using Sun's Direct Graphics Access
- (DGA) technology.
-
- Several companies are making hardware accellerator boards:
-
- Dupont Pixel Systems (302-992-6911), for Sun.
-
- Megatek's (619-455-5590) X-cellerator board for the Sun 3 and Sun 4 is
- based on the TI 34020; the company claims performance improvements of 5x to
- 10x over the sample X11R3 server.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 74) Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board?
-
- Takahashi Naoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, ntakahas@etl.go.jp) has
- modified the X11R5 server to support the Sun CG8, CG9, and CG12 boards.
- The files are on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xsun24-3.[01].tar.Z. Note that both
- files are necessary to build Xsun24-3.1.
-
- The R5 Xsun Multi-screen server is a general purpose replacement for
- the MIT server/ddx/sun layer; it supports multiple framebuffers of the same
- type and implements several other features above the MIT implementation.
- Available on ftp.x.org in the file contrib/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z. [Kaleb
- Keithley, now kaleb@x.org, 12/91; the file was updated 24 Mar 1993.]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 75) Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50?
-
- Seth Robertson (seth@ctr.columbia.edu) has written Xkernel; the current
- version [1.4 as of 8/91, 2.0 expected RSN] is on sol.ctr.columbia.edu
- [128.59.64.40] in /pub/Xkernel.gamma. It turns a Sun 3/50 into a pseudo- X
- terminal; most of the overhead of the operating system is side-stepped, so it
- is fairly fast and needs little disk space.
- A similar approach is to run the regular X server by making /etc/init
- a shell script which does the minimal setup and then invokes Xsun, like this
- example script from mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU:
-
- #! /bin/sh
- exec >/dev/console 2>&1
- /etc/fsck -p /dev/nd0
- case $? in
- 0) ;;
- 4) /etc/reboot -q -n
- ;;
- 8) echo ND fsck failed - get help
- /etc/halt
- ;;
- 12) echo Interrupted
- /etc/reboot
- ;;
- *) echo Unknown error in reboot fsck - get help
- /etc/halt
- ;;
- esac
- /bin/dd if=/tmp-fs of=/dev/nd2 bs=512 count=128 >/dev/null 2>&1
- /etc/mount /dev/nd2 /tmp
- /etc/ifconfig le0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 132.206.41.255
- /etc/mount -o ro apollo:/u2/x11/lib /local/lib/X11
- /etc/route add default 132.206.41.1 1 >/dev/null
- set `/etc/ifconfig le0`
- exec /Xsun -once -multidisp -mux -query \
- `(sh -vn </local/lib/X11/xdm-servers/$2 2>&1)`
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 76)! What terminal emulators other than xterm are available?
-
- People from PCS have rewritten xterm from scratch using a multi-widget
- approach that can be used by applications. Emu supports features like color,
- blinking text/cursors. Emulations can be added on the fly; one emulation
- provided is for the Vt220. A version is on the R5 contrib tape; the newest
- release is on ftp.x.org [10/93] in contrib/emu.tar.gz. For more information,
- contact emu@pcs.com.
-
- A set of modifications for color support to xterm is on ftp.x.org in
- xterm_color.diffs.Z.
-
- mxterm, a Motif-based xterm is available from the Paderborner
- ftp-Server ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32), file
- /unix/X11/more_contrib/mxterm.tar.Z. A version is also on ftp.x.org, as
- is apparently a set of color modifications.
-
- The Color Terminal Widget provides ANSI-terminal emulation compatible
- with the VTx00 series; a version is on ftp.x.org in contrib/CTW-1.1.tar.Z. A
- Motif version is on ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Term-1.0.tar.Z.
-
- kterm 4.1.2 is an X11R4-based vt100/vt102 (and Tektronix 4014) terminal
- emulator that supports display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (in VT
- mode). Also supported are: ANSI color sequences, multi-byte word selection,
- limited Compound Text support, and tab and newline preservation in selections.
- kterm 4.1.2 is also available from these anonymous ftp sites:
- clr.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z [128.123.1.14]
- ftp.x.org:contrib/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z
- kum.kaist.ac.kr:pub/unix/Xstuffs/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z [137.68.1.65]
- [courtesy of Mark Leisher <mleisher@nmsu.edu> ]
-
- kterm-5.1.1.tar.Z is now on ftp.x.org [12/92].
-
- mterm, by mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, is an X terminal emulator
- which includes ANSI X3.64 and DEC emulation modes. mterm can be had by ftp to
- larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1), in X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax.
-
- color_xterm is available from ftp.x.org.
-
- Cxterm is a Chinese xterm, which supports both GB2312-1980 and the
- so-called Big-5 encoding. Hanzi input conversion mechanism is builtin in
- cxterm. Most input methods are stored in external files that are loaded at run
- time. Users can redefine any existing input methods or create their own ones.
- The X11R5 cxterm is the rewritten of cxterm (version 11.5.1) based on X11R5
- xterm; it is in the R5 contrib software. [thanks to Zhou Ning
- <zhou@tele.unit.no> and Steinar Bang <uunet!idt.unit.no!steinarb>.]
-
- XVT is available on ftp.x.org's contrib in xvt-1.0.tar.Z and
- xvt-1.0.README. It is designed to offer xterm's functionality with lower swap
- space and may be of particular use on systems driving many X terminals. A
- second version, 2.0, is on unix.hensa.ac.uk in misc/unix/xvt/xvt-2.0.tar.Z
- (see also xvt-2.0.patch1).
-
- x3270 is in X11R5 contrib/.
-
- The typescript application and inset in the Andrew User Interface
- System offers a shell script interface. It does not provide curses support,
- but does permit general cut/copy/paste to construct commands or extract a
- portion of the log.
-
- hanterm (2.0), by jksong@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, is an xterm modified to
- support Hangul (Korean writing system) input/output. It's available at
- several Korean archives(cair.kaist.ac.kr,kum.kaist.ac.kr,etc) and
- seoul.caltech.edu in the US. This version makes obsolete an older version not
- based on xterm.
- Another experimental hanterm implementation, hanterm (3.0 alpha), is
- underway by Chang Hyeong-Kyu at chk@ssp.etri.re.kr; it was written to support
- a 3-byte Hangul code (dictionary ordered), which can compose all possible
- Hangul characters.
-
- Also:
- IBM sells a 3270 emulator for the RS/6000 (part #5765-011); it's based
- on Motif.
-
- Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X.
- VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available.
-
- Grafpoint's TGRAF-X provides emulation of Tektronix 4107, 4125, and
- 42xx graphics terminals; it's available for most major platforms. Information
- (inc. free demo copies): 800-426-2230; Fax. 408-446-0666; uunet!grafpnt!sales.
-
- IXI's X.deskterm, a package for integrating character-based
- applications into an X environment, includes a number of terminal-emulation
- modules. Information: +44 (0223) 462131. [5/90]
-
- Pericom produces Teem-X, a set of several emulation packages for a
- number of Tek, DEC, Westward, and Data General terminals. The software runs on
- Sun 3, Sun 4, Apollo, DEC, ISC, IBM/AIX. Information: US: 609-895-0404,
- UK: +44 (0908) 560022. [5/90]
-
- SCO's SCOterm (info@sco.COM), part of its Open Desktop environment, is
- a Motif-compliant SCO ANSI color console emulator.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 77) Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor?
-
- No; these features are not offered by the xterm program. However,
- several of the emulators mentioned above do offer these features; the list is
- partial:
- - mterm, color-xterm, CTW and emu support colored text
- - mterm and emu support blinking text
- - mterm and emu support block and underline text cursors
- - emu supports a blinking text cursor
-
- [Thanks to Michael Elbel (me@dude.pcs.com); 10/93]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 78)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor?
-
- You can ftp a version of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable,
- self-documenting, real-time display editor, including X11 support, from
- prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:/pub/gnu/. Version 19 has some mouse/menu support.
-
- Epoch is a modified version of Gnu Emacs (18) with additional
- facilities useful in an X environment. Current sources are on cs.uiuc.edu
- (128.174.252.1) in ~ftp/pub/epoch-files/epoch; the current [3/92] version is
- 4.0. [In Europe, try unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de]. There are two
- subdirectories: epoch contains the epoch source, and gwm contains the source
- to the programmable window manager GWM, with which epoch works well.]
- You can get on the Epoch mailing list by sending a request to
- epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu.
-
- Lucid Emacs is a version of GNU Emacs derived from an early version of
- Emacs version 19. It currently requires X Windows to run; X support is
- greatly enhanced over GNU Emacs version 18, including support for multiple X
- windows, input and display of all ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) characters, Zmacs/Lispm
- style region highlighting, a customizable Motif-like menubar, more powerful
- keymap support, flexible text attributes, support on regional and screen-local
- basis through X resources and/or lisp, and support for the X11 selection
- mechanism. Lucid Emacs is free; the latest version (9/93) is 19.8, and is
- available from labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.112) in the pub/gnu/lucid directory.
-
- The Andrew system on the X11 contrib tapes has been described as one of
- the best word-processing packages available. It supports word processing with
- multi-media embedded objects: rasters, tables/spread sheets, drawings, style
- editor, application builder, embedded programming language, &c. Release 5.1
- became available 2 June 92. [Fred Hansen (wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)]
- You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
- software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.
-
- The InterViews C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG editor called Doc; it
- saves and loads files in a LaTeX-*like* format (not quite LaTeX). The package
- can also import idraw-PostScript drawings.
-
- A simple editor aXe (by J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk) is available on
- ftp.x.org and arjuna.newcastle.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) as aXe-5.1.tar.Z [7/93].
- It is based around the Xaw Text widget.
-
- TED is a simple Motif-based text editor; it is a wrapper around the
- Motif text widget which offers search/replace, paragraph formatting, and
- navigation features. TED is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) as
- /pub/bill.tar.Z; here are also executables there.
-
- Point, by crowley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Charlie Crowley), is Tcl/Tk-based
- and offers dyanimic configuration and programming in the Tcl macro language.
- The editor is available from unmvax.cs.unm.edu (129.24.16.1) as
- pub/Point/point1.1-tar.Z.
-
- asedit, by Andrzej Stochniol (astoch@ic.ac.uk) is on ftp.x.org in
- contrib/asedit.tar.Z. It is a simple text editor built around the Motif Text
- widget. Version 1.2 was released 10/93.
-
- jed is available from rhino.cis.vutbr.cs in pub/software/czech.
-
- xcoral is on ftp.inria.fr; it also has bindings similar to emacs and
- has a built-in browser for C and C++ code. A version is also on
- ftp.Uni-Oldenburg.DE:pub/unix/appl/edit/xcoral-1.72.tar.Z.
-
- The powerful "sam" editor by Rob Pike is split into a host portion and
- a front-end graphics portion, which now has an X implementation. sam is now
- available by anonymous ftp from research.att.com, in dist/sam/bundle.Z. Watch
- that space for updated versions. There is a mailing list for sam users;
- requests to <sam-fans-request@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>. A set of extensions
- which augment the mouse activity with the keyboard is available from
- uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sam/samx2.shar.Z. [5/93]
-
- textedit is part of Sun's OpenWindow's DeskSet and the public XView
- distribution.
-
- The vi-like-microemacs editor VILE supports a pure-X mode, in which
- it operates much like vi running in an xterm window. Version 3.63 is available
- on ftp.cayman.com in pub/vile.
-
- NEdit 2.0 is a Motif-based text editor. Sources are on ftp.x.org
- and fnpspb.fnal.gov. Information: edel@fnal.gov.
-
- Also:
-
- Elan Computer Group (Mountain View, CA; 415-964-2200) has announced the
- Avalon Publisher 2.0, an X11/OPEN LOOK WYSIWYG electronic publishing system.
-
- FrameMaker and FrameWriter are available as X-based binary products for
- several machines. Frame is at 800-843-7263 (CA: 408-433-3311).
-
- WX2 (formerly InDepthEdit) is available from Non Standard Logics
- (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr).
-
- Buzzwords International Inc. has an editor called 'Professional Edit'
- that runs under X/Motif for various platforms. Info: +1-314-334-6317.
-
- DECwrite is available from DEC for some DEC hardware and SunWrite is
- available from Sun.
-
- IslandWrite will soon be available from Island Graphics (415-491-1000)
- (info@island.com) for some HP & Apollo platforms.
-
- Interleaf is currently available from Interleaf (800-241-7700,
- MA: 617-577-9800) on all Sun and DEC platforms; others are under development.
-
- The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
- MA: 508-870-0300) include a multi-font WYSIWG document composer; for several
- systems.
-
- ArborText, Inc. provides an X11 version of its Electronic Publishing
- program called "The Publisher". The Publisher is available on Sun, HP and
- Apollo workstations. Contact Arbortext at 313-996-3566. [5/90]
-
- Iris Computing Laboratories offers the "ie" editor. Info:
- +1-505-988-2670 or info@spectro.com.
-
- BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a menu-driven word
- processor with multiple fonts and style sheets. It supports X on
- multiple platforms. (617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com) [11/90]
-
- Innovative Solutions (505-883-4252; or Brian Zimbelman,
- is!brian@bbx.basis.com) publishes the user-configurable Motif-based Xamine
- editor.
-
- Qualix offers a product. Information: info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX
- (415-572-0200).
-
- Typex is a Motif-based editor available for several systems.
- Information: Amcad Research, 408-867-5705, fax -6209.
-
- WordPerfect offers an X-based version of WordPerfect 5.1 for several
- workstations. Information: 801-222-5300 or 800-451-5151.
-
- Bradford Business Systems (714-859-4428) offers SpeedEdit for several
- systems.
-
- VITAL (713-781-7406) offers the Crisp editor, a work-alike superset of
- the popular BRIEF editor, for several systems. Previously-available source
- versions have been withdrawn from circulation.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 79) Where can I get an X-based mailer?
-
- xmh, an X interface to mh, is distributed with the X11 release.
-
- Xmail is an X-based window interface to Berkeley-style mail handlers;
- it is styled primarily after the Sunview mailtool application and builds on
- most Unix systems. The current release [1/92] is 1.4, available in the MIT
- X11R5 contrib tape and from ftp.x.org and uunet. Info: Jeff Markham,
- markham@cadence.com.
-
- adcmail (0.9 pre-release), on ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk provides all the
- normal mail facilities (message management, aliases, etc.); work is underway
- to tidy things up a little and to add MIME compliancy.
-
- MMH (My Mail Handler), a motif interface to the MH mail handler, is
- available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) in pub/bill.tar.Z; it is bundled
- with the TED editor, which it uses for composing messages. Motif 1.1 is
- required; if you don't have it, look for DEC and SPARC executables in the same
- place. Information and problems to: Erik Scott, escott@eos.ncsu.edu. [1/92]
-
- The Andrew Toolkit supports the Andrew Message System; it is available
- from ftp.x.org and many other X archives and from emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu
- (128.2.30.62), or send email to susan+@andrew.cmu.edu. Release 5.1 became
- available 2 June 92.
- You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
- software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.
-
- XMailTool is an Xaw-based interface to a BSD-style mail reader; version
- 2.0 was released 9/92. Information: Bob Kierski, bobo@cray.com or 612-683-5874.
-
- Cem is a Motif-based mailer using standard mailbox formats; it is on
- nelson.tx.ncsu.edu in pub/Cem. Information: Sam Moore (Sam_Moore@ncsu.edu).
-
- MuMail, an X-based elm-like mail program is available at
- sipb.mit.edu:/pub/seyon/MUMAIL or sunsite.unc.edu in
- /pub/Linux/system/Mail/Mumail-2.3b-tar.Z.
-
- Xelm is a work-in-progress by wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk to construct an X
- version of the elm mailer.
-
- Also:
-
- Alfalfa Software offers Poste, a UNIX-based mailer that has Motif- and
- command-based interfaces. It includes support for multimedia enclosures, and
- supports both the Internet and X.400 mail standards. Information:
- info@alfalfa.com, +1 617-497-2922.
-
- Z-Code Software offers Z-Mail for most Unix systems; binaries support
- both tty and Motif interfaces. The mailer includes a csh-like scripting
- language for customizing and extending mail capabilities. Information:
- info@z-code.com, +1 415 499-8649.
-
- Several vendors' systems include X-based mailers. DEC offers dxmail;
- Sun offers an X-based mailtool; SCO (info@sco.com) includes SCOmail in its Open
- Desktop product. HP offers the MPower product.
-
- Several integrated office-productivity tools include mailers:
-
- The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
- MA: 508-870-0300) include a mailer.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 80)! Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program?
-
- Drawing Packages:
-
- xpic is an object-oriented drawing program. It supports multiple font
- styles and sizes and variable line widths; there are no rotations or zooms.
- xpic is quite suitable as an interactive front-end to pic, though the
- xpic-format produced can be converted into PostScript. (The latest version is
- on the R4 contrib tape in clients/xpic.)
-
- xfig (by Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)) is an object-oriented
- drawing program supporting compound objects. The xfig format can be converted
- to PostScript or other formats. Recent versions are on the R5 contrib tape or
- on ftp.x.org in /contrib/R5fixes (version 2.1.8 [10/93]).
-
- idraw supports numerous fonts and various line styles and arbitrary
- rotations. It supports zoom and scroll and color draws and fills. The file
- format is a PostScript dialect. It can import TIFF files. Distributed as a part
- of the InterViews C++ toolkit (current release 3.1, from
- interviews.stanford.edu) .
-
- tgif by William Cheng (william@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) is available from most
- uucp sites and also from ftp.x.org and from cs.ucla.edu. It is frequently
- updated; version 2.14 was released 8/93 (up to patch9 12/93).
-
- figure in the Andrew User Interface System (versions 5.2 and above) is
- a general drawing package which also allows arbitrary Andrew insets to be part
- of the drawing.
-
- Commercial Draw Products:
-
- FrameMaker has some draw capabilities. [4/90]
- Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
- Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
- Ficor AutoGraph, 513-771-4466
- IslandGraphics offers IslandDraw. Info: 415-491-1000.
-
- BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
- paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
- (617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90]
-
- Corel Draw, 613-728-8200; ported to X by Prior Data Sciences
- 800-267-2626
-
- sphinx is a family of tools for the realization of dynamic drawings;
- it contains the vector-drawing objecft grinx and an interactve X-based editor.
- The toolbox is available from in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de).
-
- Paint Packages:
-
- XPaint 2.1, by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com), is a color
- bitmap/pixmap editing tool featuring most standard paint program options. It
- allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various
- formats, including PPM, XBM, etc. The current version is available for ftp
- from ftp.x.org as contrib/xpaint-2.1.0.tar.Z [7/93]
-
- A new OpenWindows PostScript-based graphical editor named 'ice' is now
- [2/91] available for anonymous ftp from Internet host lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
- (129.236.10.30). ice (Image Composition Environment) is an imaging tool that
- allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript
- annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript
- rasterizing. (It may require OpenWindows and Sun C++ 2.0.)
-
- The "pixmap" program (info: colas@sa.inria.fr) for creating pixmaps is
- on the R5 contrib tape; it resembles the bitmap client. Version 2.1 is now
- available. [11/92]
-
- A version of Robert Forsman's (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu) xscribble,
- an 8-bit paint program for X, is now on ftp.cis.ufl.edu in pub/thoth/. [2/93]
-
- Although MetaCard is not generally classified as a paint program, a
- full 24-bit color image editor is built into the program, which can be used for
- light image editing and for producing color icons (info@metacard.com). MetaCard
- is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or
- 128.138.213.21.
-
- pixt by J. Michael Flanery (flanery@mips.com) produces XPM output; it
- is available on ftp.x.org.
-
- xpe on ftp.x.org produces XPM output.
-
- Phoenix is a 24-bit editor for editing of photos, notably. An
- alpha is on nic.funet.fi:pub/graphics/packages/phoenix.
-
- Commerial Paint Products:
-
- DEC Ultrix includes the dxpaint bitmap editor.
- OpenWindows includes the olpixmap editor.
- SCO ODT includes the SCOpaint editor.
- HP VUE includes the vueicon editor.
- Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
- Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
- IslandGraphics offers IslandPaint. Info: 415-491-1000.
-
- BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
- paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
- (617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90]
-
- Several integrated office-productivity tools include draw/paint capabilities:
-
- The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
- MA: 508-870-0300) include draw/paint capabilities.
-
- [thanks in part to Stephen J. Byers (af997@cobcs1.cummins.com), J. Daniel
- Smith (dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com), and David Koblas
- (koblas@netcom.com)]
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 81) Where can I get an X-based plotting program?
-
- These usually are available from uucp sites such as uunet or other sites as
- marked; please consult the archie server to find more recent versions.
- See also the comp.graphics FAQ.
-
- gnuplot X (xplot), PostScript and a bunch of other drivers.
- ftp.x.org [and elsewhere]:contrib/gnuplot3.4a.tar.Z
-
- gl_plot X output only [?]
- comp.sources.unix/volume18
-
- graph+
- yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au:/pub/graph+.tar.Z [131.170.24.42]
- comp.sources.unix/volume8
-
- pdraw,drawplot 2D and 3D X,PS
- scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/3dplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
- scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/contour.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
- scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/drawplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
- uunet:~ftp/contrib/drawplot.tar.Z
-
- xgraph plot, zoom. Outputs PS or HPGL.
- shambhala.berkeley.edu:/pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.32.132.54]
- sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:X11/contrib/xgraph-11.tar.Z [132.230.1.1]
- nisc.jvnc.net:pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.121.50.7]
- comp.sources.x/volume3
- or many other sites
-
- ACE/gr (formerly xvgr and xmgr) XY plotting tools
- ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]
- XView version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.10.tar.Z
- Motif version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.10.tar.Z
- [mirrored on ftp.x.org in /contrib/acegr]
-
- XGobi An interactive dynamic scatter-plotting tool from Bellcore
- lib.stat.cmu.edu: general/xgobi* [log in as statlib with your email
- as the password; or send email to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu containing
- the one-line message "send xgobi from general"]
- Information from: Debby Swayne, dfs@bellcore.com.
-
- Robot a scientific XView-based graph plotting and data analysis tool
- ftp.astro.psu.edu:pub/astrod/robotx0.47.tar.Z [128.118.147.28]
-
- plotmtv a multi-purpose 2D/3D plotter
- tanqueray.berkeley.edu:/pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z
- XgPlot Motif-based x-y graphing with a movie-loop display
- ftp.x.org:XgPlot-4.1.tar.Z
-
-
- [2/91. Thanks in part to: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti); geoff@Veritas.COM
- (Geoffrey Leach); Paul A. Scowen (uk1@spacsun.rice.edu); black@beno.CSS.GOV
- (Mike Black)]
-
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- Subject: 82)+ Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program?
-
- Xgrab reads a textual specification of a graph, lays out the graph
- using heuristics to minimize the number of edge crossings, and displays the
- graph as labeled nodes and edges in an X window. Sources are on
- ftp.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) as pub/xgrab.tar.Z. Interviews 2.6 is
- required. [12/93]
- The DaVinci visualization tool can be used to display graphs.
-
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- Subject: 83) Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet?
-
- A version of "sc" for X and which supports Lotus files is available from
- vernam.cs.uwm.edu in xspread2.1.tar.Z. It also includes graphing functions.
- Information: soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu.
-
- The GNU package OLEO is available in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/oleo-1.5.tar.Z;
- it can generate PostScript renditions of spreadsheets.
-
- Also:
-
- Several of the below are part of integrated office-productivity tools which may
- also include word-processing, email, conferencing, image processing, and
- drawing/painting, among other features.
-
- Vendor Product Contact Information
- ------ ------- -------------------
- Access Technology 20/20 508-655-9191
- Informix WingZ 800-331-1763
- Quality Software Products Q-Calc/eXclaim 800-628-3999 (CA:213-410-0303)
- Unipress Q-Calc 201-985-8000
- Uniplex Uniplex 214-717-0068, 800-356-8063
- Digital DECdecision 1-800-DIGITAL
- Applix Applixware 508-870-0300, 1-800-8APPLIX.
- AIS XESS 919-942-7801, info@ais.com
- BBN Software Products BBN/Slate 617-873-5000 slate-offer@bbn.com
- Elsid Software Systems Ripcam 613-228-9468
- Andrew Consortium table info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu
-
- SAS by the SAS Institute now has a spreadsheet module; the X version is
- available on the current popular RISC platforms.
-
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-
- David B. Lewis faq%craft@uunet.uu.net
-
- "Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday
- --
- David B. Lewis Temporarily at but not speaking for Visual, Inc.
- day: dbl@visual.com evening: david%craft@uunet.uu.net
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