phil@RICE.ARPA (William LeFebvre) (09/05/85)
HELP!!
I just tried printing a copy of the "ideal" manual (by Chris Van Wyck).
When I ran it thru ideal, it failed, claiming that it couldn't open the
"sector" libfile. Further investigation shows that there are two
libfiles that the ideal manual references that we do not have: "sector"
and "segment". Either they are not included in the standard
distribution or we managed to lose them somehow. They sould be in
the directory "ideal/lib", but they are not.
Does anyone have these files that they can send me? I'm willing to do
whatever is considered necessary and reasonable to prove that we have a
Unix license and a ditroff license. Or are these files not to be had:
a cheap method that AT&T is using to keep people from printing extra
copies of the ideal manual? I'm sure these files are short and simple,
but I don't fancy the idea of recreating them based on my knowledge of
ideal.
William LeFebvre
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
<phil@Rice.arpa>
or, for the daring: <phil@Rice.edu>jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) (09/07/85)
In article <1259@brl-tgr.ARPA> phil@RICE.ARPA (William LeFebvre) writes: > HELP!! > > I just tried printing a copy of the "ideal" manual (by Chris Van Wyck). > When I ran it thru ideal, it failed, claiming that it couldn't open the > "sector" libfile. Further investigation shows that there are two > libfiles that the ideal manual references that we do not have: "sector" > and "segment". Either they are not included in the standard > distribution or we managed to lose them somehow. They sould be in > the directory "ideal/lib", but they are not. May I refer to the same manual you want to print? The Ideal reference manual states in section 3.3 Including files: ... The following library files are available: arc, arrow, circle, dash, rect, and wavy. Also note in the Ideal User's Manual: This generalization of the simple boundary statement is the most recent addition to ideal. It avoids treating circles and their sectors and segments as special cases, and makes opaqueing circular arc polygons much easier. My guess is that v. Wijk didn't update the manual according to this new situation, since he had the obsolete stuff lying around anyway. So change the code for the example. --jaap
bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) (09/09/85)
> HELP!! > > I just tried printing a copy of the "ideal" manual (by Chris Van Wyck). > When I ran it thru ideal, it failed, claiming that it couldn't open the > "sector" libfile. Further investigation shows that there are two > libfiles that the ideal manual references that we do not have: "sector" > and "segment". Either they are not included in the standard > distribution or we managed to lose them somehow. They sould be in > the directory "ideal/lib", but they are not. > > William LeFebvre They must be missing from the distribution because we are missing the same two files here. -------- Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr -- Robert Reed, CAE Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr