uhley@tybalt.caltech.edu (John Uhley) (01/04/90)
Over the last three years the Computational Neural Systems group here at Caltech has developed a general purpose neural network modeling platform, GENESIS with an X11 front-end, XODUS. We are now distributing full source for the entire package from 'genesis.cns.caltech.edu' (131.215.135.64). The implementation of the front-end of this package may be of interest to the X11 community. It is an implementation of an interpretive front-end to X11, allowing users to create, modify, and examine widgets and many of their properties at run-time in an interactive fashion. For example, typing "create xform /my_form" followed by an "xshow /my_form" will create and map a form widget onto the currently defined DISPLAY. Additionally, the package is somewhat object oriented, allowing commands such as "set /my_form width 10" to set the current width of the form widget named "/my_form" to 10. Changes made to this widget by a window manager (ie: resizing) will update the stored width value of the form as well. Three neural simulation "demos" built on the GENESIS platform are also included with this release. Examples of dialog buttons, graphs, and other widgets are included. This package is distributed "as-is", and is not supported by Caltech or it's authors! PORTED TO: GENESIS and XODUS currently run on Decstation 3100's and all Sun workstations. HOW TO GET A COPY: use *TELNET* or *RLOGIN* to login as the user "genesis" on "genesis.cns.caltech.edu" (131.215.135.64). This runs an ftp account generating package which will get you an ftp account. Please enter the information this program asks for (email address and the like). Once you have an ftp account, ftp back to the machine and snag the file "/pub/genesis.tar.Z". It extracts as "./genesis" and needs to appear to live in /usr/genesis on your machine. Follow the directions in the READ_ME file found in ./genesis/README to install.