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- The Macintosh version of Gist was created by Steve Langer
- (shl@icf.llnl.gov) from the Unix version written by Dave Munro.
- This file contains some short notes about the Macintosh version.
- Usage of the Mac version is largely self-explanatory. If you want to
- find out about more details, please consult the documentation
- supplied with the Unix version.
-
- Macintosh versions of gist are labeled by the version number
- of the corresponding Unix release followed by the Mac version.
- For example, version 1.0v2 means the second version based on
- Unix release 1.0.
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- Changes since the original release
- -------------------------
- Most of the changes since the first release are in the user interface.
- If you double-click on a cgm file created by yorick, gist will be
- launched. At this time, gist does not manage to open the cgm file,
- but that should be fixed soon.
-
- The gist.dir file is no longer needed; macgist assumes that its
- include and palette files are found in the same directory as
- macgist itself.
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-
- Installation
- ------------
- Gist is distributed in a self-extracting archive file. This version
- should run on any 68K Mac and under emulation on a PowerMac.
- Gist reads binary CGM files and displays the plots on the screen.
- Gist can save any desired combination of plots from the CGM file
- in another CGM file or in a PostScript file. The Mac version of
- gist can also save the currently displayed frame in a PICT file.
-
- CGM stands for "Computer Graphics Metafile". The CGM standard was
- originally developed for mainframe computer graphics, but it is now
- used on computers of all sizes, and even is used by some mainstream
- programs like Freelance Graphics by Lotus Development. One of the
- unfortunate features of the CGM standard is that it provides many
- options for how to encode a file. gist does not attempt to read all
- CGM files. gist can read the CGM files written by yorick without any
- loss of information. The preferences dialog in the edit menu provides
- an option to read cgm files made by the ATC GKS package, and this works
- reasonably for the files we make using ATC. Gist may work with other
- types of binary cgm files, so go ahead and try it and see what happens.
-
- The main use for macgist is making PICT files from a CGM file written
- yorick. A specific case where it would be extremely useful is when
- you have run a complex calculation with yorick on a Unix workstation
- and need to include the results in report written on a Macintosh.
-
- Gist is distributed as a MacBinary self-extracting archive.
- Use the MacBinary capability in your ftp program to download the
- "macgist.sea" file (I like using Fetch for this). Once you have
- the "macgist.sea" file, double-click on it and it will automatically
- split itself apart into the constituent files. If you also have
- the Mac version of yorick, you can drag macgist into your yorick
- directory and get rid of the Gist folder which is the same as
- the one used by yorick.
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