smikes@hound.att.com (Steven Mikes) (12/06/89)
I have some files produced by the "screendump" utility on a Sun(3/4) that I want to display in an X11.3 application, preferably using the xwud utility. Is there a way to get Sun rasterfile format data directly over to x window dump format (without having to write my own utility of course ... call me lazy, but I think SOMEONE out there must already have done this!) ? If anyone out there already knows how to do this, please clue me in. (Sun, you should already know how to do this, surely someone over there has had the need to do something like this, eh?) Thanks, in advance: Steven Mikes {att!}hound!smikes (201) 949-7737 [[Ed's Note: A casual browsing of our system utilities shows this program - xbgsun which looks like the kind of thing you are looking for. We don't have source publicly available, and I was unable to track down where it originally came from, so you'll have to write the author if you are interested. -bdg]] NAME xbgsun - load a Sun rasterfile onto an X11 root window DESCRIPTION Xbgsun loads a Sun monochrome rasterfile onto an X11 root window. If the rasterfile name ends in .Z, the file will be uncompressed before loading (this saves a lot of disk space). AUTHOR Jim Frost madd@bu-it.bu.edu
evgabb@uunet.uu.net (Rob Gabbard) (12/20/89)
In article <3795@brazos.Rice.edu>, smikes@hound.att.com (Steven Mikes) writes: > I have some files produced by the "screendump" utility on a Sun(3/4) that > I want to display in an X11.3 application, preferably using the xwud > utility. Is there a way to get Sun rasterfile format data directly over > to x window dump format (without having to write my own utility of course > ... call me lazy, but I think SOMEONE out there must already have done > this!) ? I know this is more of an e-mail thing but I thougt I'd post this to emphasize a point: GET THE PBMPLUS KIT THAT WAS POSTED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO !!!!! I work on Suns under SunView, HPs under X11, I have an Amiga at home and we have Postscript printers at work. I have had excellent success in using this utility to convert bitmaps back and forth between all these different imaging models. Want X11 xwd to Sun raster ? No problem: (monochrome) xwdtopbm "xwd file" | pbmtorast > "rast file" (color) xwdtoppm "xwd file" | ppmtorast > "rast file"
djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (12/23/89)
Here's the source code to xbgsun. [[ Editor's Note: Placed in archives on Titan. ]] FTP: Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) Directory: sun-source Filename : xbgsun.shar Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source xbgsun.shar David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>