peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (03/14/90)
Is the PIX PostScript interpreter available any more? Even without the
windowing, a free PostScript would be something worth having available for
a wide variety of purposes. The only one I know of is Ghostscript, and I
don't care to play political games with the GNU folks.
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vjim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (03/14/90)
Don't forget Crispin Goswell's interpreter which was integrated into viewers for SunView and X. I think the SunView interface fell away, but "xps" is still alive, mostly well, and available by anonymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu (contrib/xps.tar.Z). An older version, which may still have the SunView support, is available from labrea.stanford.edu (pub/ukps.tar.Z) Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics P.O. Box 10494 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94309 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-4940
jthomp@hosaka.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson) (03/15/90)
> Don't forget Crispin Goswell's interpreter which was integrated into > viewers for SunView and X. I think the SunView interface fell away, > but "xps" is still alive, mostly well, and available by anonymous ftp > from expo.lcs.mit.edu (contrib/xps.tar.Z). An older version, which > may still have the SunView support, is available from > labrea.stanford.edu (pub/ukps.tar.Z) Um, there never was SunView support, though there was the basic SunWindow support. A few months back, Mike Bender and I went through the gymnastics to bend the code into working with (under?) SunView. I suppose I can put it out somewhere if the demand is overwhelming. -- Jim Thompson - Network Engineering - Sun Microsystems - jthomp@central.sun.com Charter Member - Fatalistic International Society for Hedonistic Youth (FISHY) "Confusing yourself is a way to stay honest." -Jenny Holzer
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (03/15/90)
please do make the sunview support for Goswell's stuff available. --Ed
barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (03/16/90)
In article <2120@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>, jthomp@hosaka (Jim Thompson) writes: > I suppose I can put it out somewhere if the demand is >overwhelming. Please. The old "patch" announced in comp.sources.misc (v15i049) never worked right. -- Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
goward@admin.cse.ogi.edu (Philip Goward) (03/19/90)
The PIX window system is alive and well on the Cogent Research XTM. The graphics libraries have been completely rewritten, and it no longer uses any cscript code. PIX isn't yet completely compatible with NeWS, but is compatible enough to run litewindow and litemenu, and most of the Sun demo programs. PIX now also supports X in a novel way - by means of a shared graphics server that both a separate PostScript server and X server access simultaneously. On the Cogent machine all three parts run on different processors. Cogent is still interested in enhancing the graphics side of the server, and also in the possibility of putting PIX into the public domain, but it still needs work before it's exactly like NeWS. Anyone interested can contact me: Philip J Goward, at Cogent Research Inc., 1100 NW Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006. goward@admin.ogi.edu