[net.micro.att] UNIX PC Graphics

choy@whuts.UUCP (CHOY) (09/26/85)

I recently purchased a UNIX PC and have some questions related
to the graphics field.

 1) Is GSS the only graphics development package available?

 2) I want to output graphics produced by GSS on a large hardcopy
    device which connect to a minicomputer UNIX. The Virtual Device
    Metafile seems a proper medium. Does anyone know there is a
    metafile interpreter exist on other UNIX machine for the Virtual
    Device Metafile?

 3) I have tried to cu a metafile to another UNIX machine but fail in
    the middle. I think it is because the metafile contains some binary
    data. According to the manual, Virtual Device Metafile is a ANSI
    standard metafile. Can somebody tell me what is a ANSI standard
    metafile?

 4) Does anyone know the format of the Virtual Device Metafile?

 Thanks in advance.

 Chi Choy
 whuts!choy
 WH 3A326 x3035

acy@milo.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) (10/01/85)

>  4) Does anyone know the format of the Virtual Device Metafile?

	You can find out about VDM from the ANSII standard.  I
have one (a draft proposal) dated May 28, 1982.  Its number is
X3H33.  By the way, I got my spec. for free from INTEL.

				At least that's the way I see it,
				Adnan Yaqub @ Allen-Bradley Co.
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