hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) (08/09/89)
1:
Would someone take the time to straighten me out on the DecStation
3100 byte ordering and it's ramifications? I am trying to compile
some code (NCAR2.0) that is dependent on some byte ordering code depending
on the processor. Generally vax vs the rest of the world. I thought the
3100 built with the -EL flag looked like a vax from a byte perspective
but using a -Dvax at as a CDEFINE makes for other errors. I have found
in one set of display routines (plt) ensuring the vax byte ordering
routines were included got me half way there.
If someone is familiar with the specific problem of NCAR: the .cgm files
from the mips display ok on a vax. Forcing plt to use the vax_swap.h code
let it open the cgm file without a record length error but the plots are
gibberish so I suspect the information is being translated by cgmtrans
or trnspprt incorrectly as the vax confirms the cgm file is correct.
2:
TeX on the mips? Has anyone tried ctex? -
Thanks,
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I got a job in science; I bought a Porsche; Now, everyone takes me seriously.chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (08/09/89)
In article <8588@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes: >2: >TeX on the mips? Has anyone tried ctex? - Get the current Unix TeX from washington.edu (by tape, or by FTP, or by gum! :-) ), compile it, and away you go. Amazing how well things written in C can port. . . . -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) (08/09/89)
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.ultrix: 9-Aug-89 Re: DS3100 questions - > whic.. Chris Torek@mimsy.UUCP (442) > >TeX on the mips? Has anyone tried ctex? - > Get the current Unix TeX from washington.edu (by tape, or by FTP, > or by gum! :-) ), compile it, and away you go And how fast -- I get between 100 and 150 pages per minute through (c)TeX on a DS3100. Michael M. Meyer Statistics/Academic Computing Carnegie Mellon University.
jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (08/11/89)
The DECstation 3100 is "little endian"; i.e. it has the same byte order as a VAX or an Intel processor (IBM PC). Note that floating point is IEEE, however. -EL is the default on the DECstation. TeX runs just fine on the DECstation. It is available from U. Washington, as usual. TeX in C was one of the early programs run as a benchmark.