tmca@ut-ngp.UUCP (Tim Abbott) (09/05/87)
I wonder if anyone can help? We're running MicroVax IIs, with
MicroVMS v4.5, monochrome workstations and Workstation Software v3.0.
Question 1:
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I'm trying to make copies of MicroVax II screen-dumps on a
LaserWriter. I've discovered how to redirect the screendump to a file rather
than 'CSA0:'. This file turns out to be in SIXEL format and to get it to the
LaserWriter it has to be in PostScript.
So the question is: does anyone out there have some program or other
that converts SIXEL to PostScript? RENDER doesn't do it, by the way.
Question 2:
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The MicroVax II workstation ought to have a menu utility. The file
UISBG.DAT that contains the info for the login menu seems to be the
beginnings of a menu protocol, but I can't find anything more than this.
Also, is there any way to change the icon picture for a 'shrunk' terminal?
Question 3:
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How do you configure a terminal line so that LOGINOUT.EXE doesn't
know it's there? The problem being that occasional unsolicited characters
on a terminal line not being used as a login line bring up said process
until it times out.
Question 4:
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I like the SWING utility that has been put out on this newsgroup,
thanks v. much to whoever wrote it, and it got me to thinking: could the
same thing be done for a program? Meaning that the bare-bones subroutine
calling structure in many programs looks somewhat like a directory tree
(except for recursion, ASTs etc...) and it would undoubtedly be useful to
have some sort of debugging tool that drew this out in some graphic form.
Has this been written? Am I living in fantasy land?
Remuneration:
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If any VaxStation II users out there are interested, I have two neat
little programs (in 'C'):
CLOCK: draws a clock face in a little window on the workstation and
shows the time in both analog and digital format.
CPU_monitor: Shows CPU activity as a pen chart in a small window.
Neither are particularly well written (I wrote them when I got bored
in the early hours) but they work, and people tend to say 'Oooh that's cute'
when they see them.
Personally, I'd have thought that things such as these would be
included in the VaxStation software, but DEC seems to be a little slow on
the uptake here. BTW, if anyone else has workstation-specific programs like
this - I'm interested.
Many thanks in advance,
Tim.
Dept Astronomy,
U of Texas at Austin
Austin TX 78712
tmca@ngp.cc.utexas.edu (internet)
ut-ngp!tmca (uucp)mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic (just take out the c's and sound it out) Kaczmarczik) (09/06/87)
In article <6159@ut-ngp.UUCP> tmca@ut-ngp.UUCP (Tim Abbott) writes: > I'm trying to make copies of MicroVax II screen-dumps on a >LaserWriter. I've discovered how to redirect the screendump to a file rather >than 'CSA0:'. This file turns out to be in SIXEL format and to get it to the >LaserWriter it has to be in PostScript. > > So the question is: does anyone out there have some program or other >that converts SIXEL to PostScript? RENDER doesn't do it, by the way. I have a program that will take a VMS workstation screen dump and convert it to PostScript. I have never tested it with anything *but* a VWS screen dump, but I doubt there's much difference between that and other SIXEL graphics. If anybody else is interested, contact me via E-mail. BTW, is anybody interested in displaying MacPaint images on a VMS workstation screen? Mic Kaczmarczik User Services Digital Support Group UT Austin Computation Center mic@ngp.utexas.edu CCEP001@UTADNX.BITNET-- Mic Kaczmarczik don't push me 'cause I'm standing in line. UT Austin Computation Center here -- calm down -- have a sip of wine. mic@ngp.utexas.edu it's like a party sometimes it makes me wonder ccep001@utadnx.bitnet how I keep myself so slender