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- From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
- Subject: Re: xv on vms?
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- References: <1992Dec10.220303.15159@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <11DEC199207382409@heechee.meediv.lanl.gov> <Bz3wK9.DF0@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:17:29 GMT
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- In article <Bz3wK9.DF0@dscomsa.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
- > In article <11DEC199207382409@heechee.meediv.lanl.gov>,
- > whitfill@heechee.meediv.lanl.gov (Jim Whitfill - Los Alamos) writes:
- >
- > |>In article <1992Dec10.220303.15159@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>,
- > |>glenn@cloud1.met.fsu.edu writes...
- > |>> i am interested in getting xv on our vax-vms (5.5 os) workstation
- > |>> does anybody know whether or not the software is portable to the
- > |>> vms-decwindows platform? i would like to use this display gif files
- > |>> on our vax instead of always porting them to a unix machine for display.
- > |>> we are getting gif files from the net of current synoptic,and satellite
- > |>> images and charts on our unix machine and i would like to be able to
- > |>> display these on our vms stations as well.
- > XV also works on ALPHA, you have to hack about a bit first though. XV for VAX
- > has special handling to make GIF loading ultra fast, lots of RMS hackery, the
- > GIF translator has also bee coded in MACRO! Once I have hacked these
- > optimizations out I will post the DESCRIP.MMS to the net.
- >
- > The actual source doe not need changing much. Alphaisms such as library text
- > file includes not being there etc clobber some of the VMS opts but apart from
- > that there is no real porting hassle.
-
- ALPHA modifications of XV "on my desk" to fold into the old
- distribution (thanks to Clark Merrill). They should allow the same
- (future) patch kit to work for us plain VAX types as well as you lucky
- ALPHA types :)
-
- I swear, I'll get to it soon! :)
-
- rick
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