mrose@GREMLIN.NRTC.NORTHROP.COM.UUCP (05/16/87)
[second time I've tried to post this...]
Hi. On host gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com [128.99.0.17], there's a file
called portal/xstuff.tar available via anonymous ftp that has a few
things for X 10.4 that you might be interested in.
- modifications to xdvi to support Tim Morgan's tpic \special's for
TeX (actually Tim did all the work, I just finished a few minor
things). Tpic is "pic for TeX" where you can draw pictures and
include them in your TeX documents. If you know what I'm talking
about, fine. If not, forget it!
- a program that takes an X bitmap or window dump and converts it into a
tpic output file for TeX. This goes with the xdvi modifications above.
- an image server for X. The idea here is that when you read your
mail, MH consults a database and puts up the face (image) of the
message's sender. It's inspired by the one Pike talked about at
Usenix a couple of years back, though it's not as elegant. This package
also includes "xwho" which is like rwho but with faces instead of
names. The only catch is that you need to be running ISODE in order
to use the image service. The reason: the image server supports
multiple bitmap formats and I didn't want to write several bitmap to
bytestream and back again routines. All of this comes for free in
ISODE, so there you have it. If you haven't heard of ISODE, drop a
note to Bug-ISODE@NRTC and ask for info.
- a useto program for X. Useto is like sysline but is integrated with
mail, rwho, etc. It's really nice I think.
- a program to set the titlebar of an xterm (e.g., when you do cd's)
- a program to popup little status messages on the bottom of your
display. For example, I have a shell script that does
imstat | xadvise
This queries the laser printer for its status and then slaps up a
window to tell me about it, 30 seconds later the window goes away.
- a program to print X window dumps on an Imagen laser printer. Also
"xipr" a shell script which is to Imagens what "xdpr" is to LN03's.
Anyway, have fun.
/mtrlouie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (05/19/87)
In article <6623.547776172@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> mrose@GREMLIN.NRTC.NORTHROP.COM (Marshall Rose) writes: > > Hi. On host gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com [128.99.0.17], there's a file > called portal/xstuff.tar available via anonymous ftp that has a few > things for X 10.4 that you might be interested in. . . >- a program to print X window dumps on an Imagen laser printer. Also > "xipr" a shell script which is to Imagens what "xdpr" is to LN03's. > I got a copy of this program, bitimp, and compiled and ran it on a MicroVAX-II running XV10.4 under 4.3 BSD. I noticed some weirdness and bit corruption, which seems to be caused by a call to SwapShorts() to byteswap the bitmap. Once I removed this, things work just fine. Is there something going on here that I'm not aware of? Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming