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1,000 | comp.graphics | re developable surface in article c x xs khe hkuxb hku hk h hkuxa hku hk abel writes hi netters i am currently doing some investigations on developable surface can anyone familiar with this topic give me some information or sources which can allow me to find some infomation of developable surface thanks for your help abel h hkuxa hku hk a developable surface is s t you can lay it or roll it flat on the plane it may require you to give it a cut though e g a cylinder a cone a plane of course or any surface or patch having vanishing gaussian intrinsic curvature i e with singular hessian the matrix of nd derivatives for an adequate coordinate patch are developable in more technical words a developable surface is locally isometric to a plane at all points think also of the sphere or the earth which in a non developable whatever way s you cut it you will not be able to lay flat any pieces of it its intrinsic curvature is nowhere vanishing for more details on this look at any book on differential geometry which treats surfaces d manifolds e g m do carmo s book book carmo differential author do carmo manfredo p title differential geometry of curves and surfaces year publisher prentice hall note pages enjoy frederic leymarie leyfre mcrcim mcgill edu mcgill university electrical eng dept mcrcim tel university st montreal qc canada h a a fax
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1,001 | comp.graphics | views on isomorphic perspectives i m working upon a game using an isometric perspective similar to that used in populous basically you look into a room that looks similar to the following xxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxx xxxx x xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxx xxxx x x xxxx xxxx x x xxxx o xxxx x xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx the good thing about this perspective is that you can look and move around in three dimensions and still maintain your peripheral vision since your viewpoint is always the same the routines can be hard coded for a particular vantage in my case wall two s rising edge has a slope of i m also using mode x x i ve run into two problems i m sure that other readers have tried this before and have perhaps formulated their own opinions the routines for drawing walls were trivial but when i ran a packed planar image through them i was dismayed by the jaggies i m now considered some anti aliasing routines speed is not really necessary is it worth the effort to have the artist draw the wall already skewed thus being assured of nice image or is this too much of a burden wall presents a problem the algorithm i used tends to overly distort the original i tried to decide on paper what pixels go where and failed has anyone come up with method for mapping a planar to crosswise sheared shape currently i take and produce line follows the slope line is directly under line line moves up a line and left pixels line is under line this fills the shape exactly without any unfilled pixels but it causes distortions has anyone come up with a better way perhaps it is necessary to simply draw the original bitmap already skewed are there any other particularly sticky problems with this perspective i was planning on having hidden plane removal by using z buffering locations are stored in x y z form for those of you who noticed the top lines of wall and wall are parallel with its bottom lines this is why there appears to be an optical illusion ie it appears to be either the inside or outside of a cube depending on your mood there are no vanishing points this simplifies the drawing code for objects which don t have to change size as they move about in the room i ve decided that this approximation is alright since small displacements at a large enough distance cause very little change in the apparent size of an object in a real perspective drawing hopefully the context of the picture ie chairs on the floor torches hanging on the walls will dispell any visual ambiguity thanks in advance for any help till next time o o v o v email pinky tamu edu sam inala v
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1,002 | comp.graphics | re rayshade query in article sunvax sun ac za sunvax sun ac za writes i am also looking for a surface for the chesspieces the board is marble unfortunately black won t work very well for the one side anybody with ideas for nice surfaces how about brass or silver i ve seen real chessboards that use that material where should i post the finished chessboard right here is as good a place as any can t wait to see it i use the pov raytracer is it compatible enough for your chessboard i don t know if you ve got the whole picture or not but it doesn t seem like he s running on all thrusters leonard mccoy a guess you spock that s extraordinary james t kirk brian smith besmith mosaic uncc edu
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1,003 | comp.graphics | re finding equally spaced points on a sphere in article trd rpi edu deweeset ptolemy rdrc rpi edu thomas e deweese writes hello i know that this has been discussed before but at the time i didn t need to teselate a sphere so if any kind soul has the code or the alg that was finally decided upon as the best as i recall it was a nice iterative subdivision meathod i would be very appreciative here is one by andrew graphics gems glassner that i got from a collegue of mine i think i fiddled with it a little bit to make it deal with whatever bizarre problem i was working on at the time but it is known to work spl spheres asg feb spl thu mar est include stdio h include math h define pi struct point struct double x y z static double radius static double xorg static double yorg static double zorg do sphere r freq x y z double r int freq double x double y double z int pole double northy southy poley double rtheta rtheta ntheta ntheta magicangle double theta thetastart thisy den t struct point node pnp struct point struct p p p p n n n n pt radius r xorg x yorg y zorg z north pole magicangle pi northy radius sin magicangle southy radius sin magicangle for pole pole pole if pole poley radius thisy northy thetastart else poley radius thisy southy thetastart for theta thetastart theta theta rtheta theta pi rtheta theta pi p x p y poley p z p x radius cos rtheta p y thisy p z radius sin rtheta p x radius cos rtheta p y thisy p z radius sin rtheta if pole make ring go the other way so normals are right pt x p x pt y p y pt z p z p x p x p y p y p z p z p x pt x p y pt y p z pt z den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t subdivide tri p p p freq now the body for theta theta theta rtheta theta pi rtheta theta pi ntheta theta pi ntheta theta pi p x radius cos rtheta p y northy p z radius sin rtheta p x radius cos rtheta p y northy p z radius sin rtheta p x radius cos ntheta p y southy p z radius sin ntheta p x radius cos ntheta p y southy p z radius sin ntheta den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t subdivide tri p p p freq subdivide tri p p p freq return define norm pt v register double r sqrt v x v x v y v y v z v z v x r v y r v z r subdivide tri p p p a struct point struct p p p int a struct point struct n n n struct point struct p p p double den t if a p x p x p x p y p y p y p z p z p z den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t p x p x p x p y p y p y p z p z p z den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t p x p x p x p y p y p y p z p z p z den p x p x p y p y p z p z den sqrt den if den t radius den p x t p y t p z t subdivide tri p p p a subdivide tri p p p a subdivide tri p p p a subdivide tri p p p a else n x p x n y p y n z p z norm pt n n x p x n y p y n z p z norm pt n n x p x n y p y n z p z norm pt n nothing special about this poly printf f f f f f f n p x xorg p y yorg p z zorg n x n y n z printf f f f f f f n p x xorg p y yorg p z zorg n x n y n z printf f f f f f f n p x xorg p y yorg p z zorg n x n y n z return steve lamont sciviguy spl szechuan ucsd edu san diego microscopy and imaging resource uc san diego la jolla ca my other car is a car too bumper strip seen on i
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1,004 | comp.graphics | re fonts in pov in article qg fc et wampyr cc uow edu au g wampyr cc uow edu au coronado emmanuel abad writes i have seen several ray traced scenes from mtv or was it rayshade with stroked fonts appearing as objects in the image the fonts chars had color depth and even textures associated with them now i was wondering is it possible to do the same in pov hi noel i ve made some attempts to write a converter that reads adobe type fonts triangulates them bevelizes them and extrudes them to result in a generic d object which could be used with pov f i the problem i m currently stuck on is that theres no algorithm which triangulates any arbitrary polygonal shape delaunay seems to be limited to convex hulls constrained delaunay may be okay but i have no code example of how to do it another way to do the bartman may be tga pov a selfmade variation of this using heightfields create a b w picture big of the text you need f i using a postscript previewer then use this as a heightfield if it is white on black the heightfield is exactly the images white parts it s still open on the backside to close it mirror it and compound it with the original example object union height field gif abp gif height field gif abp gif scale texture glass translate center rotate rotate upwards scale scale bigger and thicker translate final placement abp gif is a gif of arbitrary size containing abp black on white in times roman points o o o brain inside o o o o andre beck abpsoft mehl andre beck irs inf tu dresden de o o o
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1,005 | comp.graphics | psygnosis cd i titles was re rumours about do in article apr rchland ibm com ricardo rchland vnet ibm com ricardo hernandez muchado writes anyway still with mhz you need sprites for a lot of tricks for making cool awesome games read psygnosis speaking of psygnosis they have licensed games to philips interative media international for cd i the following was recently posted in a message in the cd i section of the multimedia forum seventh guest has been licensed by virgin games to philips interactive media international for worldwide cd i rights were also licensed to p i m i litil divil from gremlin graphics uk and microcosm from psygnosis uk those three titles will be adapted on cd i using the full potential of the fmv cartridge meaning using the additional memory as well as the motion video capabilities those titles have been negociated in europe but will be available worldwide also lemmings have been licensed from psygnosis as well as striker soccer from rage uk i don t know when these titles will be available or when work on them even started so don t expect your cd i retailer to have them yet there was also some mention of future nintendo cd i games in an issue of the uk magazine ert mario hotel was mentioned as having levels mark although i work for philips i don t work on cd i or multimedia the above info is just provided in good faith from what i ve read and does not represent any statement from philips mark samson information technology group philips research laboratories cross oak lane redhill surrey rh ha tel my ext tel labs telex fax email seri samson prlhp unix samson prl philips co uk binary files packages prlhp
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1,006 | comp.graphics | re scf files help needed from article apr cx com by tlc cx com i ve got an old demo disk that i need to view it was made using rix softworks the files on the two diskette set end with scf the demo was vga resolution colors but i don t know the spatial resolution according to my colorix manual scf files are x x first problem when i try to run the demo the screen has two black bars that cut across horizontally the screen in the top third and bottom third of the screen the bars are about inch wide other than this the demo the animation part seems to be running fine second problem i can t find any graphics program that will open and display these files i have a couple of image conversion programs none mention scf files you may try vpic i think it handles the color rix files ok rob sherry sherry a cs okstate edu
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1,007 | comp.graphics | re d studio v any differences with previous version as i understand it the difference between d studio and is mainly in the ipas interface along with a few small bug fixes the ipas code runs a lot faster in the newest version chris johnston materials engineer nasa lewis research center internet chris sarah lerc nasa gov brookpark rd ms cleveland oh usa resistance is futile
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1,008 | comp.graphics | re photoshop for windows in article c uhim jfq rot qc ca beaver rot qc ca andre boivert writes i am looking for comments from people who have used heard about photoshop for windows is it good how does it compare to the mac version is there a lot of bugs i heard the windows version needs fine tuning also photoshopii is out soon has anyone got a date and any cofmments andy andrew leahy aleahy cch coventry ac uk odd frog what a piece of work is man how noble in reason how infinite in faculties in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god the beauty of the world the paragon of animals and yet to me what is the quintessence if dust man delights not me shakespeare hamlet
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1,009 | comp.graphics | re tiff philosophical significance of in article alice att com td alice att com tom duff writes ulrich galki toppoint de wrote does anyone have any other suggestions where the came from forty two is six times nine for very small values of six and nine sorry tom i couldn t resist
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1,010 | comp.graphics | graphics formats i m currently looking for information about different graphics formats especially ppm pcx bmp and perhaps gif does anyone know if there exist any files at some site that describes these formats thanks o o erik brenn email erikb idt unit no o oooo faculty of computer science telematics the norwegian institute of technology trondheim oooo not to make sense just cents
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1,011 | comp.graphics | re wanted info on image databases padmini srivathsa in wisconsin writes i would like references to any introductory material on image databases i d be happy to us international snail mail technical information on imaging databases to anyone who needs it if you can provide me with your address for hard copy not email we re focusing mostly on open pace oracle ingres adabas sybase and gupta regarding our imaging databases installed we have over installed and in production now most of the new ones going in are on novell lans the rs and now hp unix workstations we work with visual basic too michael willett office wang com
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1,012 | comp.graphics | problems grabbing a block of a starbase screen at the moment i m trying to grab a portion of a starbase screen and store it in an area of memory the data needs to be in a bit format which shouldn t be a problem as the app is running on a bit screen though i m not too fussy about the exact format i actually intend to write the data out as a tiff but that bits not the problem does anyone out there know how to grab a portion of the screen the block read call seems to grab the screen but not in bit colour whatever the screen window type i get byte per pixel thanks in advance martin martin preston m preston manchester ac uk computer graphics computer graphics unit manchester computing centre is just university of manchester a load of balls manchester u k m pl phone
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1,013 | comp.graphics | re xv under ms dos hi recently i found xv for ms dos in a subdirectory of gnu cc gnuish i use frequently xv on a sun spark station and i never had problems but when i start it on my computer with h option it display the help menu and when i start it with a gif file my hard disk turns or seconds and the prompt come back my computer is a little with copro mega rams tseng m running ms dos with himem sys and no emm sys i had the go exe too but no driver who run with it do somenone know the solution to run xv any help would be apprecied you probably need an x server running on top of ms dos i use desqview x but any ms dos x server should do xx x technical documentation is writing of the words xx x for of the features that only of the customers xx x actually use xx x a pc to xx x i don t have opinions i have factual interpretations the power xx x me of x xx x xx uunet rutgers mcdhup inferno tom can be found at x xx periphonics corporation x xx veterans memorial highway bohemia ny x xx x xx they pay me to write not express their opinions
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1,014 | comp.graphics | closed curve intersection i would like a reference to an algorithm that can detect whether one closed curve bounded by some number of bezier curves lies completely within another closed curve bounded by bezier curves thanks sean t lamont ask me about the wsi fonts zeno genetics washington edu professional collection for next lamont abstractsoft com abstract software
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1,015 | comp.graphics | print graph on printer this seems to be a simple problem but i just cannot solve it i wrote a c program to draw some polygons on the screen and i want to print it on my printer so i press print screen on the keyboard the problem is the printer just print out some ascii characters is there any other way to print the screen without using print screen please help
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1,016 | comp.graphics | is there an ftp achive for usgs terrain data is there an ftp archive for united states geological services usgs terrain data if so where charles boesel diablo creative if pro for and con against cboesel diablo uu holonet net then what s the opposite of progress pager what else congress
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1,017 | comp.graphics | need postscript strokeadjust info i need information on the display postscript strokeadjust feature this feature adjusts the endpoints of lines so that the displayed line looks better on low resolution devices the postscript literature explains the process to some extent they also give an example of how to emulate strokeadjust in postscript environments where it is absent the suggested emulation is to modify the coordinates of the endpoints of a line using the following formula for each coordinate new coord round old coord doing this we end up with all coordinates ending in from reading i thought that what they might actually do is new coord trunc old coord this results in all the coordinates ending in either or whichever is closer by doing some actual comparisons with display postscript i find that neither of these is what dps really uses since i like how the dps result looks better than how my stuff looks i d like to know if anyone who knows how dps does it is willing able to tell me thanks steve squeegee world std com
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1,018 | comp.graphics | package for fashion designer this article was probably generated by a buggy news reader
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1,019 | comp.graphics | packages for fashion designers hello i am looking for commercial software packages for professional fashion designers any recommendation and pointers are greatly appreciated please e mail me if you may thanks a million ge
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1,020 | comp.graphics | mpeg location can anyone tell me where to find a mpeg viewer either dos or windows thanks in advance alan m jackson mail ajackson cch cov ac uk liverpool football club simply the best you ll never walk alone
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1,021 | comp.graphics | color palette for color vga rainbow does anybody out there have or know how to calculate the rgb values required to set the color vga palette so that the colors from will give colors of the rainbow ie red orange yellow etc any help would be appreciated please email to eeerik cc newcastle edu au erik de castro lopo dept electrical computer eng uni of newcastle australia
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1,022 | comp.graphics | attractive drawing on the sphere s p h e r i c a l d e s i g n i n g i have made an attractive program on at computer for drawing on the sphere and pasting it of paper for children artists and education i can send an example to alt source wanted on which you can see the rotation of the sphere if you are interested children can design tesselations of the many famous regular polyhedra without serious difficaltis and print patterns to paste their spherical models moscow tel after o clock or e mail valentin vulihman
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1,023 | comp.graphics | attractive drawing on the sphere subscribe comp graphics quit
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1,024 | comp.graphics | re newsgroup split in article nerone apr sylvester cc utexas edu nerone ccwf cc utexas edu michael nerone writes in article quvdoinn e srvr engin umich edu tdawson engin umich edu chris herringshaw writes ch concerning the proposed newsgroup split i personally am not in also it is readily observable that the current spectrum of amiga groups is already plagued with mega crossposting thus the group split would not in all likelihood bring about a more structured environment am i glad you write that i got flamed all along because i begged not to crosspost some nonsense articles the problem with crossposting is on the first poster i am aware that this posting is a crossposting too but what else should one do you never know where the interested people stay in to split up newsgroups brings even more crossposting jan holler bern switzerland good is not good enough make it better holli holler augs adsp sub org second chance holler iamexwi unibe ch fast mail cbmehq cbmswi augs holli holler cbmvax commodore com
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1,025 | comp.graphics | tom gaskins pexlib vs phigs programming manuals o reilly could someone explain the difference between tom gaskins two books o pexlib programming manual o phigs programming manual why would i want to buy one book vs the other book i have an running sco unix x r on my desktop a sun iv in my lab and access to a variety of other systems alliant fx cray y mp on the network mostly we would like to do d modeling visualization of rat rabbit monkey and human brain structure thanks aj alexander james annala principal investigator neuroscience image analysis network hedco neuroscience building fifth floor university of southern california university park los angeles ca
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1,026 | comp.graphics | re scf files help needed in article apr daimi aau dk rued daimi aau dk writes rix s files with the extension sci and scf are just a raw file with a color palette stuff deleted regards thomas do you happen to know what a sco rix file is alex kiernan akiernan falcon demon co uk
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1,027 | comp.graphics | help miro crystal or ati gup i m planning to buy a new vlb eisa system with a good graphic performance so far i looked at the ati gup vlb as my favorite graphics card but recently i heard something about a new card from miro it was the miro crystal s with mb and true color support up to x it costs just a little more than the ati so can t decide which one matches better my needs any technical references and performance comparisons especially from the miro card would be greatly appreciated peter e mail kohut urz unibas ch universitas basiliensis switzerland
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1,028 | comp.graphics | news re list or image processing systems moscow scientific inductrial association spectrum offer videoscan vision system for pc at wich include software and set of controllers software for support videoscan family program kit was developed kit includes more then different functions for image processing kit works in the interactive regime and has include help for non professional users there are next possibility input frame by any board of videoscan family read white image to from disk print image on the printer makes arithmetic with frames filter image work with gistogramme edit image include users exe modules controller vs the function of vs controller is to load tv images into pc at vs controller allows one to load a fragment of the tv frame from a field of x pixels the clock rate is mhz when loading an image with pixel in the line and mhz when loading a pixels image this provides the equal pixel size of input image in both horizontal and vertical directions the number of gray levels in any input modes is video signal capture time s controller vs the purpose of the controller is to enter the tv images into a ibm pc at or any other machine of that type the controller was created on the base of modern elements including user programmable gate arrays the controller allows to digitize a input signal with different resolutions its flexible architecture makes possible to change technical parameters instead of tv signal one can process any other analog signal including signals from slow speed scanning devices the controller has the following technical characteristics memory volume from k to mb resolution when working with standard video signal from x to x pixels resolution when working in slow input regime up to x pixels video signal capture time ms maximum size of a screen when memory volume is mb x pixels number of gray level clock rate for input up to mhz input video multiplexer input output lookup table lut possibility to realize scroll and zoom lines for external synchronization an input using external controlling signal electronic adjustment of black and white reference for analog digital converter possibility output image to the color rgb monitor one can change all listed above functions and parameters of the controller by reprogramming it image processor vs image processor vs allows to digitize and process tv signal in real time it is possible digitize tv signal with resolution and realize arithmetic and logic operation with two images processor was created on the base of modern elements including user programmable gate arrays and designed as a board for pc memory volume allows write to the frames with format it is possible to accumulate until images the processor has the following technical characteristics memory volume to mb number of the gray level input video multiplexer input output lookup table electronic adjustment for black and white adc reference image size from to possibility color and black white output possibility input from slow scan video sources
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1,029 | comp.graphics | renderman shaders discussion does anyone know of a site where i could ftp some renderman shaders or of a newsgroup which has discussion or information about renderman i m new to the renderman mac family and i d like to get as much info i can lay my hands on thanks andy bates andy bates
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1,030 | comp.graphics | re coreldraw bitmap to scodal in article r gmginn fm zephyr grace cri nz srlnjal grace cri nz writes yes i am aware coreldraw exports in scodal but if you try to export in scodal with a bitmap it will say something like cannot export if anyone out there knows a way around this i am all ears i think one not ideal solution is to use the tracing utility can t remember the name sorry included in the corel draw s w pack it can convert bitmaps to corel art format these can then be imported into a drawing rather than the bitmap result the file is completely in corel format and can be scodal ed no problem but the slight problem with this which makes the solution less than idea is that the trace utility spits out many more points than are necessary to define the shapes being traced straight lines and curves are both traced as many short segments so the scodal taking much longer to image the obvious solution is time consuming stripping out the extra points by hand using corel ouch i ve done it a few times i was just wondering if there was anything out there that just did the bitmap to scodal part a tad cheaper jeff lyall as i say if you don t mind the problems go via the route bitmap corel via trace hand trimming using corel combine with main corel pic via import scodal cheers toby toby freeman glasgow university freemant uk ac glasgow dcs
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1,031 | comp.graphics | pov problems with tga outputs i can t fiqure this out i have properly compiled pov on a unix machine running sunos the problem is that when i run the sample pov files and use the exact same parameters when compiling different tga outputs some of the tga s are okay and other s are unrecognizable by any software help ed edb tamsun tamu edu
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1,032 | comp.graphics | bit graphics i was recently talking to a possible employer mine and he made a reference to a bit graphics computer image processing system i seem to remember it being called image or something akin to that anyway he claimed it had bit color a bit alpha channel that s bits of info what could that possibly be for specifically the bit color that s trillion colors many more than the human eye can resolve is this an anti aliasing thing or is this just some magic number to make it work better with a certain processor also to settle a bet with my roommate what are sgi s flagship products i know of iris indigo and crimson but what are the other ones and which is their top of the line sadly i have access to none of them just a dec sigh eric oehler oehler picard cs wisc edu
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1,033 | comp.graphics | re adobe photo shop type software for unix x motif platforms we have been shipping for over one year the adobe display postscript dps on silicon graphics workstations file servers and supercomputers the adobe illustrator for silicon graphics machines was released last february adobe and sgi announced last october that photoshop will be available on sgi systems in initial release will support bit color graphics ivan bach ib sgi com disclaimer i do not speak for my employer
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1,034 | comp.graphics | re is there an ftp achive for usgs terrain data diablo uucp cboesel charles boesel writes is there an ftp archive for united states geological services usgs terrain data if so where point your gopher client at merlot welch jhu edu and select the following directories search and retrieve software search and retrieve graphics software and data and you ll see graphics online bibliography acm siggraph graphics software and data archives ftp sites search all graphics information search comp graphics faq search graphics resources software and data search pictures utilities faq graphics online bibliography acm siggraph searches and archives of bibliographic database that covers graphics literature for over a hundred years served by a gopher hole in austria graphics software and data archives ftp sites has links to over sites around the world which have software and or data for computer graphics this can be used on its own or as a companion to the searches found in this directory which will point you toward software and data at various places search all graphics information search comp graphics faq search graphics resources software and data search pictures utilities faq these searches contain a wealth of information about computer graphics data software techniques etc search all graphics information will simply search all of the information contained in searches and search comp graphics faq lets you search the faq frequently asked questions from the comp graphics newsgroup compiled by john grieggs at the jpl search graphics resources software and data lets you search the grpahics resource listing of software and data provided by nick fotis at the national technical univ of athens search pictures utilities faq lets you search the faq frequently asked questions from the alt binaries pixutils newsgroup compiled by jim howard at cadence select search all graphics information and search for usgs and you ll find out some information about usgs data availability now select graphics software and data archives ftp sites and you might find the following interesting cartographic data usgs data xerox mapgen plotgen and more usgs usgs weekly seismicity reports including maps gif usgs earth science data directory this actually is a database of available data search it for terrain could prove quite useful one other place to look is only available by anonymous ftp at the moment us geological survey maps isdres er usgs gov if you ve never heard of gopher don t worry it s free and on the net write me a note if you d like information on how to get started best of luck dan jacobson danj welchgate welch jhu edu johns hopkins university
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1,035 | comp.graphics | advice sought turning font outlines into renderable polygons i am seeking some alternate solutions on how to turn a postscript type or truetype font outline into polygons that can be subsequently scan converted by a d scanline renderer i have been studying the problem of font conversion for a few years but have never had the need to implement such a system well i now have the opportunity to write some font rendering software so i would like to have some of my questions answered before i jump into the deep end the main problem i face is how to use the even odd or non winding rules to turn the outlines into a single outline polygon my renderer can handle complex polygons so there is no need to reduce the polygons to simple polygons for example in the letter o there are two outlines the outside outline which is clockwise truetype font the inside outline which is counterclockwise one common solution used by a number of rendering packages is to simply connect the inner outline to the outer outline at the point where the two outlines are closest this is equivalent to descibing a polygon with holes the renderer will then make the appropriate hole since the interior polygon edges are in the opposite direction to the outside edges i do not want to use this simplistic system since it will not handle all outline fonts properly it is not a simple matter to connect the outer outline to the inner outline for some fancy fonts it does not properly handle the even odd or non winding rules from my research over the years the proper solution is to use a trapezoid decomposition algorithm to scan convert the outlines into trapezoids as is done by the postscript and truetype font rasterizers these trapezoidal polygons can then be easily and properly rendered by the d scanline renderer my question is are there any better solutions to turning the outlines into polgyons other than the trapezoid decomposer i am not fond of this solution since it creates excess number of polygons another question for those in the know what is the best algorithm to create bevelled and or offset curves for font outlines i have a dozen papers on these subjects but i can t tell which method is the best to implement thanks for any pointers rob lansdale robert lansdale dynamic graphics project internet lansd dgp toronto edu computer systems research institute uucp uunet dgp toronto edu lansd university of toronto bitnet lansd dgp utoronto toronto ontario m s a canada
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1,036 | comp.graphics | looking for usa map does anyone out there have or know of line drawing usa map thanks very much in advance hoi yoo engr ucf edu
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1,037 | comp.graphics | d files what are they i was chaining around in the anonymous ftp world looking for d studio meshes and other interesting graphical stuff for the program and found a few files with the extension d my ds v doesn t know this type of file so what are they and of course the perennial where are some meshes fli files etc out there i would have thought that someone would have collected a few and put them somewhere but alas i am without this knowledge mucho appreciato douginoz
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1,038 | comp.graphics | ftp for targa i am looking for software to run on my brand new targa if anyone knows of any sites which have useful stuff or if you have any yourself you want to give let me know via mail thanks a lot yayayay jamie ddsw mcs com
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1,039 | comp.graphics | mgr naplps gui bbs frontends hi all i am looking into methods i can use to turn my linux based bbs into a full color graphical bbs that supports pc mac linux and amiga callers originally i was inspired by the naplps graphics standard a summary of which hit this group about weeks ago following up on software availability of naplps supporting software i find that most terminal programs are commercial the only resonable shareware one being pp which runs soley on msdos machines leaving mac and amiga users to buy full commercial software if they want to try out the bbs i know i wouldn t next most interesting possibility is to port mgr to pc mac amiga i know there is an old version of a mac port on bellcore com that doesn t work under system but i can t seem to find the source anywhere to see if i can patch it is there a color version of mgr for linux i know there was an alpha version of the libs out last year but i misplaced it does anyone on this group know if mgr as been ported to pc or amiga i can t seem to send a message to the mgr channel without it bouncing does anyone have any other suggestions for a linux based gui bbs thanks in advan
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1,040 | comp.graphics | gaspra animation quicktime gaspra animation march the gaspra animation is now available at the ames space archives in quicktime format the animation was formed from images taken by the galileo spaecraft shortly before its closest approach to the asteroid in october the animation is available using anonymous ftp to ftp ames arc nasa gov user anonymous cd pub space animation files gaspra qt ron baalke baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov jet propulsion lab m s telos it s kind of fun to do pasadena ca the impossible walt disney
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1,041 | comp.graphics | re vga scrolling hi if you want to have soft scrolling on your vga you have to change some intern registers of the crtc but it is a little bit difficult to explain so i would suggest you take a look at the programming of the ega vga adapter by addison wesley you will find all useful descriptions for every available vga register boris dr bobo ponton hanse de boris pruessmann
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1,042 | comp.graphics | q tiff description sorry for wasting your time with a probably simple question but i m not an computer graphic expert i want to read tiff files with a pascal program the problem is that the files i want to read are in compressed form code e g huffman all books articles i found describe only the plain uncompressed format i don t know where to get the original tiff specification furthermore i haven t any access to a realy complete library can anybody direct me to a good book or even better to an specification available via ftp thanks in advance thomas wolf ps direct mail would be prefered
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1,043 | comp.graphics | re why does illustrator autotrace so poorly in article b vmcbrt diablo uucp diablo uucp cboesel charles boesel writes yeah corel draw and wordperfect presentations pretty limited here too since there s no not really such thing as a decent raster to vector conversion program this tracing technique is about it simple stuff like b w logos etc do pretty well while more complicated stuff goes haywire i suspect even though i don t write code that a good bitmapped to vector conversion program would probably be as big as most of these application softwares we re using but even so how come one hasn t been written to my knowledge i mean even hijaak one of the commercial industry standards of file conversion hasn t attempted it yet mac mcdougald any opinions expressed herein the photography center are not necessarily actually univ of tenn knoxville are almost certainly not those mac utkvx utk edu of the university of tennessee mac utkvx bitnet things are more like they are now fax than they ve ever been before
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1,044 | comp.graphics | re tom gaskins pexlib vs phigs programming manuals o reilly merlin neuro usc edu merlin writes could someone explain the difference between tom gaskins two books o pexlib programming manual o phigs programming manual why would i want to buy one book vs the other book i have an running sco unix x r on my desktop a sun iv in my lab and access to a variety of other systems alliant fx cray y mp on the network mostly we would like to do d modeling visualization of rat rabbit monkey and human brain structure rather than decide which book you want to buy you need to decide which programming interface you want to use then buy the appropriate book i wrote an article for the x resource which discusses the differences between phigs and pexlib it will appear in issue which should be out pretty soon but here s a brief summary phigs is a graphics api which was designed to be portable to many devices most implementations support the x window system and take advantage of a d extension to x called pex pexlib is a slightly lower level api which was designed to efficiently support the pex extension to x some advantages of using pexlib integrates with xlib xt motif etc better than phigs provides immediate mode capabilities is free of policy pex supports phigs but is currently being extended to support features not found in phigs like texture mapping anti aliasing pexlib will give you access to all of these features some advantages of using phigs support for multiple devices not just x based ones support for archiving metafiles hardcopy output phigs has predefined input devices to make input easier phigs can handle exposure events and resizing for you phigs can help you with colormap selection creation if you re working strictly in x and don t care about things like archiving i would go with pexlib either way you will find that both api s have a lot in common ralph mor mit x consortium
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1,045 | comp.graphics | re mpeg location alan jackson ajackson cch coventry ac uk wrote can anyone tell me where to find a mpeg viewer either dos or windows thanks in advance alan m jackson mail ajackson cch cov ac uk liverpool football club simply the best you ll never walk alone you can find a windows mpeg viewer at wuarchive wustl edu in the mirrors msdos windows directory tmc tmc spartan ac brocku ca
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1,046 | comp.graphics | re newsgroup split chris herringshaw tdawson engin umich edu wrote concerning the proposed newsgroup split i personally am not in favor of doing this i learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading this group from code to hardware to algorithms i just think making different groups out of this is a wate and will only result in a few posts a week per group i kind of like the convenience of having one big forum for discussing all aspects of graphics anyone else feel this way just curious daemon what he said tmc tmc spartan ac brocku ca
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1,047 | comp.graphics | re rumours about do in article lot rapnbh h viamar uucp rutgers viamar kmembry writes read issue of wired magazine it has a long article on the hype of do i ve noticed that every article talks with the designers and how great it is but never show any pictures of the output or at least pictures that one can understand gamepro magazine published pictures a few months ago and computer chronicles a program that is syndicated to public tv stations around the nation spent several minutes on it when it was shown at ces it was very impressive what it can do in real time john munsch p s don t take that to mean that i believe that the system is going to take over the world or something just that it clearly has a lot more horsepower than any of the vis cd i sega cd or turbo duo crowd
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1,048 | comp.graphics | re tiff anything in article apr spartan ac brocku ca tmc spartan ac brocku ca tim ciceran writes there is a program called graphic workshop you can ftp from wuarchive the file is in the msdos graphics directory and is called grfwk t zip this program should od everthing you need tmc tmc spartan ac brocku ca thanks it did work and it is just what i needed thanks joshuaf
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1,049 | comp.graphics | re newsgroup split tmc spartan ac brocku ca tim ciceran writes chris herringshaw tdawson engin umich edu wrote concerning the proposed newsgroup split i personally am not in favor of doing this i learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading this group from code to hardware to algorithms i just think making different groups out of this is a wate and will only result in a few posts a week per group i kind of like the convenience of having one big forum for discussing all aspects of graphics anyone else feel this way just curious daemon what he said ditto here too tmc tmc spartan ac brocku ca joe noble pogo den mmc com all the beauty of a dying vulture the smile of the truly stupid
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1,050 | comp.graphics | loosing color hi guys i am scanning in a color image and it looks fine on the screen when i converted it into pcx bmp gif files so as to get it into ms windows the colors got much lighter for example the yellows became white any ideas thanks dan csc phx vaxc hofstra edu
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1,051 | comp.graphics | color problem i am scanning in a color image and it looks fine on the screen when i converted it into pcx bmp gif files so as to get it into ms windows the colors got much lighter for example the yellows became white any ideas thanks dan csc phx vaxc hofstra edu
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1,052 | comp.graphics | re why does illustrator autotrace so poorly a shareware graphics program called pman has a filter that makes a picture look like a hand drawing this picture could probably be converted into vector format much easier because it is all lines with corel trace etc
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1,053 | comp.graphics | pov ray problem please help hello i ve recently had povray draw about sample files the problem is that i accidently erased the command in my povray def that made the image a targas file so now the files are the dump format how do i fix these files with out having to re trace them by fix i mean turn them into targas thanks in advance jerry jerry m lineberry internet lineber lonestar utsa edu or compuserve
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1,054 | comp.graphics | scip fi fiction set in comp science programming environs scip fi ction set in c sci programming environs list by ian feldman written by book title publisher year pp v isbn john brunner shockwave rider ray ballantine cracking the net to free information for the common good pat cadigan mindplayers an absolute must have bruce sterling pat cadigan synners bantam virtual reality orson scott card lost boys harper collins programmer and family encounters strange events in north carolina denise danks frame grabber st martin s hrdb gbp computer illiterate journalix tracks down murderer via bbs toni dwiggins interrupt a techno mystery set in silicon valley michael frayn the tin men fontana inspired lunacy but out of print david gerrold when harlie was one release bantam william gibson count zero computers as gods part of a trilogy william gibson mona lisa overdrive virtual reality william gibson burning chrome cyberpunk short stories william gibson neuromancer industrial espionage author guilty of inventing the cyberpunk genre james hogan the genesis machine del ray james hogan thrice upon a time time travel for information james hogan the two faces of tomorrow del ray ultimate test of ai os by letting it run a spacelab amok stanislaw lem his master s voice failed attempt to decode et message tom maddox halo remarkable sf of robots artificial intelligence george rr martin nightflyers tor books r a macavoy tea with the black dragon mystery around a computer fraud situation computing bits ring true vonda n mcintyre steelcollar worker in analog nov blue collar vr marge piercy body of glass penguin pp data piracy review finger books body of glass danny orthanc cs su oz au david pogue hard drive diamond pp x programmer dies in accident leaves no documentation behind software firms fight for market share with virii right out of the pages of macworld steve brock richard powers the gold bug variations morrow famous molecular scientist ponders on the why of love life in edp dept paul preuss human error nanotech computer infects brain damaged kid thomas j ryan the adolescence of p ace runaway ai experiment takes over mainframes wrecks havoc bruce sterling the difference engine with w gibson bantam finger books the difference engine danny orthanc cs su oz au cliff stoll the cuckoo s egg non fiction but reads like one review ftp garbo uwasa fi mac tidbits tb mar etx tom t thomas me smart computers vernor vinge across realtime baen books several titles vernor vinge tatja grimm s world baen books soon available vernor vinge the witling baen books as millennium vernor vinge threats and other promises baen books books in uk vernor vinge true names other dangers baen books vernor vinge a fire upon the deep tor books p essentially about the future of the internet john varley press enter short story gruesome but good ed yourdon silent witness computer crime caper story gumshoe has to explain intricacies of computer os to girlfriend herbert w franke das zentrum der milchstrasse the center of the galaxy herbert w franke letzte programmierer the last programmer i do not mean frank herbert emil zopfi computer fuer nacht limmat verlag switzerland emil zopfi jede minute kostet franken last in german last set in the commercial computing world of the early s current version of this list via finger scip fi danny orthanc cs su oz au compiled mail s additions comments updates ianf random se statistical breakdown scip fiction nominations title author books nominated the adolescence of p ryan vinge titles neuromancer gibson gibson titles true names and other dangers vinge ryan the adolescence shockwave rider brunner brunner shockwave rider when h a r l i e was one gerrold gerrold when h a r l i e a fire upon the deep vinge hogan titles threats and other promises vinge lem fiasco hmv solar total nominations authors female sent in by readers contributions by unsorted fifo from sbrock teal csn org steve brock from john lacey johnl cs indiana edu 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1,055 | comp.graphics | re interviews graphics package rene s dutch student renes ecpdsharmony cern ch wrote i m trying out the c graphics package interviews besides the man pages on the classes i haven t got any documentation is there anything else around furthermore can anyone send me a small example program which shows how to use these classes together i would be very gratefull you might want to try comp windows interviews
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1,056 | comp.graphics | re fractal compression in article inu n lindblat cc monash edu au inu n lindblat cc monash edu au i rachmat writes hi can anybody give me book or reference title to give me a start at fractal image compression technique helps will be appreciated thanx for better worse the source on this on is michael barnsley his article in the science of fractal images peitgen et al is a fair to middling intro barnsley s book fractals everywhere is a more thorough treatment the book covers iterated function systems in general and their application to image compression is clear from the text dr memory jbulf kpc com
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1,057 | comp.graphics | graphics needed i m looking for graphics clipart bmp gif of anything relating to ophthalmology i know it s a weird request anything such as eyeglasses contact lenses eyes would be greatly appreciated thanks
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1,058 | comp.graphics | re jpeg file format peterbak microsoft com peter bako writes where could i find a description of the jpg file format specifically i need to know where in a jpg file i can find the height and width of the image and perhaps even the number of colors being used any suggestions peter try ftp uu net in graphics jpeg chun hung lin l t r csie ntu edu tw communication multimedia lab dept of comp sci info eng national taiwan university taipei taiwan r o c
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1,059 | comp.graphics | easy to translate jpeg code does anyone out there have any jpeg decompression code in pretty much any language that i can read and understand i have trouble understanding the jpeg group s code that i got from an ftp site if any one can send me some good code i will appreciate it a lot thanks stuart denman stusoft u washington edu
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1,060 | comp.graphics | re d files what are they doug hparc aus hp com doug parsons writes i was chaining around in the anonymous ftp world looking for d studio meshes and other interesting graphical stuff for the program and found a few files with the extension d my ds v doesn t know this type of file so what are they they are d object files for cad d a program written by tom hudson for the atari st computers don t know much more about them except that they are stored with the points first then the surfaces are next and are made by listing point numbers that make up the triangle surface then there s a header that describes coloring lighting etc don t know much more than this hope this helps stuart denman stusoft u washington edu
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1,061 | comp.graphics | gif to bmp to saz hook corp mot com sz does anybody know of a program that converts gif files to bmp files sz and if so where can i ftp it from any help would be greatly sz appreciated sure a great shareware program is graphic workshop the newest version is although i don t know where you can ftp it from it also converts to about other formats and does many other things r c v t ell r deluxe sa my address eric vitiello tfd coplex com
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1,062 | comp.graphics | re need a viewer for gl files in article qu i kh dux dundee ac uk dwestner cardhu mcs dundee ac uk dominik westner writes hi the subject says it all is there a pd viewer for gl files for x thanks dominik dominik have you tried xgrasp it s out there on several ftp sites not sure which but archie can find it i m sure it works ok but it lacks an interface jason weiler weilej rpi edu
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1,063 | comp.graphics | ds where did all the texture rules go hi i ve noticed that if you only save a model with all your mapping planes positioned carefully to a ds file that when you reload it after restarting ds they are given a default position and orientation but if you save to a prj file their positions orientation are preserved does anyone know why this information is not stored in the ds file nothing is explicitly said in the manual about saving texture rules in the prj file i d like to be able to read the texture rule information does anyone have the format for the prj file is the cel file format available from somewhere rych rycharde hawkes email rych festival ed ac uk virtual environment laboratory dept of psychology tel univ of edinburgh fax
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1,064 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is kermit available for windows from article a fm b w w vicuna ocunix on ca by steve frampton frampton vicuna ocunix on ca i was wondering is the kermit package the actual package not a yes in the usual ftp sites yek chong
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1,065 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | win storm pc anyone have any info on the video sound card from sigma designs it is called win storm pc they also have another card called the legend lx any info would be appreciated incuding performance pricing and availability thanks srini
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1,066 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re win doublespace in article hpwala wal hp com chrisa hpwarr hp com chris almy writes doublespace although i do not trust it for my hard disks sounds great for floppies the thouoght of having to mount the disk is anoying but something i can deal with the problem arises when under windows is there a way to mount and unmount while under windows or is this part of the upgrades soon to be available from other vendors chris i can t see why you would not trust it because it is safer than any previous compression programs it integrates into the kernal and makes it nearly impossible to delete
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1,067 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ms mouse driver does anyone have the documentation for the ms mouse driver i got it when i got windows but my windows manual does not come with the documentation in particular i need to know how to turn it off and how to speed it up outside windows the greater sensitivity is needed so i can play various games esp x wing carlos g niederstrasser only two things are infinite princeton planetary society the universe and human stupidity and i m not sure about the former einstein carlosn phoenix princeton edu space phoenix princeton edu ad astra per ardua nostra
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1,068 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | win icon help please i have win and downloaded several icons and bmp s but i can t figure out how to change the wallpaper or use the icons any help would be appreciated thanx brando ps please e mail me
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1,069 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | is smartdrv exe causing bad sectors on my hd i am having something very unusual happen first some background on my system i have a mitsubishi meg hard drive and am running smartdrv the version that comes with windows on it i rarely use windows i use a program called disk technician gold v to do diagnostics live time on my hard drive it works by having a device driver detect whenever more than one read is necessary for a file or if there is anything else is wrong with it and minor problems are fully checked out upon rebooting my hard drive is notorious for bad sectors i usually end up with new bad sectors a week here s what happened i ran a program and dtg broke in with an emergency warning and recommended i reboot it gave me this message twice before the program was fully loaded i exited the program and did just this dtg went through its bootup process examining for new errors etc and a screen popped up and said something about sectors for a brief period of time i then went back to the program executed it again and the exact same error was detected i rebooted and tried again and the same error happened again so i removed dtg from memory and went to the program to see if i could detect anything wrong sure enough there was a number of read attempts so i rebooted and reloaded dtg but removed the cache i executed the program no read errors either audible or detected by dtg i quit the program loaded the cache and ran the program again the errors were detected ok so the errors are there and dtg detects but doesn t fix them when the cache is loaded when the cache is not loaded there are no errors so to see if the cache was interfering with any other files i went into xtree gold and tagged all files and searched them for a random string in other words i wanted the program to completely read every file on my hard drive before i got through the c s dtg had detected at least six errors and recommended i reboot does anybody have any idea why smartdrv is causing misreads on my hard drive oh there are exactly two misreads per file and in about every files are affected i originally posted this message to disk technician corp s system but i figured someone out in netland may know enough about smartdrv to help me out internet jdriver netlink cts com john driver uucp ryptyde netlink jdriver netlink online communications public access in san diego ca
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1,070 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re ms windows access for the blind in apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes at the micro oft display at fose there were a few computers running windows and win apps for the blind i think didn t pay much attention to it but it was there it seems that a particular program designed for blind people is more important than trying to interface windows with a way for blind people to use it if someone made a voice recognition multimedia sound oriented program it would probably been more effective i don t know what the original purpose of interfacing windows was for the person who posted the question though kirk membry our age is the age of industry rutgers viamar kmembry alexander rodchenko
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1,071 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | why i m not using dos anymore i ve been running dos for about a month i was generally impressed with the improvements the multiple boot configurations were great the new commands were nice and doublespace worked fine twice as slow for large data transfers twice as fast for small with smartdrv until now this morning at am while i was working on my research paper i had to reboot a hung dos program that did no disk i o from within windows when my machine finished rebooting i found my windows directory and about two thirds of my other directories were irreversibly corrupted i cannot afford problems like this i m returning to dos mark p s i ve also noticed bad sector errors from doublespace where none should exist
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1,072 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help with changing startup logo hello brad monday april brad smalling wrote to crosspost all bs for a vga card these are the correct files but you can t just copy them bs back and expect it to work you have to create a new win com file try bs the command you will have to worry about what directories each file is in bs since i don t know your setup bs copy b win cnf vgalogo lgo vgalogo rle win com bs i grabbed this from supercharging windows by judd robbins great book bs this is also how you can put your own logo into the windows startup bs screen an rle file is just a specially compressed bmp file brad what is the procedure used to specially compress the bmp file i would love to use some of my bmp files i have created as a logo screen thanks chris origin chris doelle f n z fidonet org
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1,073 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | where to get ati card video drivers fonts does anyone know where i can ftp or somehow else acquire the latest video drivers fonts for an ati svga adapter the only floppy i have is for windows does anyone know if ati is still in business thanks farley access digex com charles u farley average iq of calgary board of ed employee
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1,074 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | truetype oem font with line drawing characters etc wanted title says it all i m in need of a truetype oem character set font ie one that contains the line drawing and other characters in the pc character set similar to those you get when running a text mode application if anyone could point me at such a thing i d be grateful the only oem fonts included with windows are not truetype regards colin manning
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1,075 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re help with changing startup logo in article rgtba gtn access digex net farley access digex com charles u farley writes i know this is probably a faq but i installed the s w for my ati graphics card and it bashed my windows logo files when i start windows now it has the logo instead of the logo i thought the files that controlled this were windows system vgalogo rle windows system vgalogo lgo i restored these files but it didn t change the logo anyone know what the correct files are i believe you have the correct files i think what you ll have to do is go back into setup and choose change video adapter or whatever it is called then the trick is choose the same adaptor you currently have what setup does is it actually changes the file win com whenever you go into it and change the video hardware selection it incorporates the contents of vgalogo rle into win com when you do this this trick can also be used to change the startup logo into whatever you want it to be sig alert dbstrutt acs ucalgary ca end sig alert
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1,076 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re document of rtf in article mar worak kaist ac kr tjyu eve kaist ac kr yu taijung writes does anybody have document of rtf file or know where i can get it thanks in advance i got one from microsoft tech support sterling g bjorndahl bjorndahl augustana ab ca or bjorndahl camrose uucp augustana university college camrose alberta canada
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1,077 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winbench help graphics comparison in article c zogd c news udel edu swyatt bach udel edu stephen l wyatt writes i have a question about winbench pc labs thing i have a and a ahead b k card and got these results windows vga driver million ahead b driver winmarks windows svga driver million winmarks i was thinking about upgrading to a diamond x card i read it had about million winmark obviously this is much much greater but is this in color mode or what is this a good card street price is about on my dx mhz mb ram winbench x v m v m v v richard mayston maystonr grace cri nz
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1,078 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re does dos defragment geoffrey s elbo writes yes and it is the fastest defrag i ve ever watched it did a mb hard disk in minutes i found the ms defrag looks very much like norton speedisk is it just a strip down version of the later i have both norton speedisk and backup so i was wondering if i need to install ms backup richard
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1,079 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows gripe there s one thing about windows that really frosts me i have mb of ram installed in my system i use a mb mb under windows disk cache and a mb permanent swap file while i can never fill the memory up i still have problems sometimes because i run out of gdi resources what gives i think windows could manage these resources a little better are you using windows or if you re still on devotes about twice as much memory to these and runs out much less frequently if you might use one of the resource monitors such as the one that comes with the windows resource kit or one of the many shareware ones available to see which programs are hogging the resources every icon internal graphics brush etc in every program running uses a certain amount of this limited memory area also some don t give it back when they re finished lamont downs downs nevada edu
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1,080 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winbench jorge erex east sun com jorge lach sun bos hardware writes is there any ftp site that carries winbench results for different graphics cards in excel xls format what is the latest version of winbench and how do they differ is the source available and has anybody try to port it to x window at least in a way that will make comparisons possible on ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win misc winadv zip is a writeup by steve gibson of infoworld with winbench and a number of other benchmark results for nine isa and four vlb video cards this is a very current upload and is likely to have any card you re currently giving serious consideration not in xls format latest version of winbench that i know of is ver i believe they try to maintain the same rating scale between versions and new versions are released to defeat the lastest coding tricks put in by driver programmers to beat the benchmarks don t know on the last one al devilbiss al col hp com
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1,081 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re norton desktop for windows in article apr exu ericsson se ebuwoo ebu ericsson se james woo writes hi i wonder if anyone has had a chance try out norton desktop for windows version yet i understand the upgrade cost from to is about but i have no idea what the new version has i got the offer to upgrade this weekend it s shipping and handling the s h seem way too steep for just a couple of disks sounds like ripoff city can this purchased at vendors bill volz chevron petroleum technology co earth model interpretation analysis division p o box la habra ca phone fax
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1,082 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re does dos defragment in article c h m p news cso uiuc edu rhc uxa cso uiuc edu richard writes geoffrey s elbo writes yes and it is the fastest defrag i ve ever watched it did a mb hard disk in minutes i found the ms defrag looks very much like norton speedisk is it just a strip down version of the later i have both norton speedisk and backup so i was wondering if i need to install ms backup richard yes defragger is come from norton if you have norton utility don t bother
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1,083 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re pc geos windows os and unix x in sehari vincent iastate edu sehari iastate edu babak sehari writes with my limited knowladge about the pc geos i came out with following comparison pc geos windows os unix x can run win programs nop yap yap nop novell is at least demoing windows apps running under unixware can run unix nop i have not nop yap heard of it try mks mks others esp emx note here the mks toolkit for dos windows os gives you a good suite of standard unix utilities there are other similar systems from other vendors as well the emx system for os gives you most of the standard unix system calls for recompiling your unix programs under os not quite the same thing as actually running unix programs directly in either case but emx makes os almost as compatible with unix systems as many unix systems are with each other and best of all emx is free there is a similar system go for dos but it doesn t work with windows as far as i know price free s a good one costs avaliable on ext card too should add in the cost for dos with both geos and windows neither of which is a standalone os at this point neither os nor unix requires dos btw two of the best unices i ve seen for the pee cee are unixware for the personal edition and linux free so i don t agree that a good one costs and if you really want to check out the various options available to you you should also look into desqview and desqview x cheers chris waters the insane don t judy s in the bedroom xtifr netcom com need disclaimers inventing situations d byrne
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1,084 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | comments on xtree for windows i am looking for comments on xtree pro for windows i am thinking of buying the product but i have not even seen it yet thank you shane holland holland ug cs dal ca holland ug cs dal ca maurack ac dal ca
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1,085 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is microsoft windows really and ope all icons in program manager are aliases is that explicit enough apparently not many people complain about the confusion that results from the filemanager progman split it s just a basic flaw besides what about the control panel icons where are all those little files
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1,086 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is microsoft windows really and operating system well you may think that but you are wrong ah the joys of networking i just hope that you forgot the if you don t like the file manager don t use it i don t i use ndw i like the more modular nature of windoze if you like things to be modular i think you would love system instead of adding a line to your autoexec bat you just drop the icon into the extensions folder just because one has had ignorance sold to one by the evil fruit empire one is not forbidden to learn about one s file system below the level of the gui i m still working on that one
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1,087 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | sound blaster ver under windows article crossposted from comp speech comp sys ibm pc soundcard comp os linux author was mario lauretti posted on mon apr gmt i have a sound blaster ver when i try to install driver ver driver that comes with window it tell me to upgrade my card first now i have found new drivers from creative labs but i have problems installing it after removing the vsbd old version that come in windows after installing creative sound blaster midi synthesizer i try to install creative sound blaster wave but when i am in the menu add unlisted or updated driver and double click on this driver i have this error driver error cannot load creative sound blaster wave and midi driver the driver file may be missing try installing the driver again or contact your system administrator yes yes yes i have read the readme st and try every thing can somebody help me mario laureti internet laurm tohi dmi usherb ca
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1,088 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows gripe in article ppmvf qnh bigboote wpi edu bigal wpi wpi edu nathan charles crowell writes hi there there s one thing about windows that really frosts me i have mb of ram installed in my system i use a mb mb under windows disk cache and a mb permanent swap file while i can never fill the memory up i still have problems sometimes because i run out of gdi resources what gives i think windows could manage these resources a little better does anyone have any input on how to conserve these resources so that i can avoid this problem nate nathan c crowell dept of mechanical engineering acrl worcester polytechnic institute e mail bigal wpi wpi edu costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars nathan win has a fixed limit of k gdi memory regardless of physical ram installed this is twice that of win but not nearly robust enough for many developers and power users using amish launch as your shell you can reduce gdi memory usage by as much as over progman ndw dashboard and other graphical type icon based and other shells also nesting and full hot key global support is offered something no other shells have at this time ted matsumura president amish software inc wq
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1,089 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm or truetype which to choose in article c tdgt mqq csn org rjn teal csn org wrote csd keele ac uk c m yearsley writes i ve just bought a pc which came with a bundle of lotus stuff including adobe type manager version as a newcomer to windows i m confused about which i should be using atm or truetype if you are going to stay with atm be sure to upgrade to which replaces who knows how old is is as fast as tt and if you disable the small screen fonts atm does better screen rendering at the smaller point sizes not true both type and tt fonts can be of excellent quality and poor quality at any size it all depends on the font s maker and the complexity of the glyphs related to the size and resolution at which they are viewed probably the reason for your opinion experience that tt is inferior is because most tt fonts on the market today have been converted from type outlines to tt either by the font vendor or end users using fontographer or fontmonger instead of the tt fonts being hand hinted to take advantage of the tt hinting language at best these converted tt fonts will be on a par with the type font of its orgin truetype is a much richer and more robust hinting language than type the hinting of diagonals for instance which tt does and type cannot if you check out the windows core fonts times arial courier symbol wingdings you ll see what can be done with tt there are other fonts out there that have been hand hinted and not just converted some of the microsoft tt font pack fonts are hinted very well you can use both tt and atm fonts at the same time if you like atm type fonts tend to be of higher quality and be more complete in terms of foreign characters again not true the characters in a tt or type font depend on the maker if someone converts a type font to tt they ll only get the characters in the font of orgin tt allows for much more flexibility in this area as well you can have thousands of glyphs in a tt font file mac ps windows unicode char set and use the characters appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on for instance all or our fontpack tt fonts have the mac windows char set in them the metrics of the fonts are such that if the font is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac char set regards a east harmony road bob niland suite internet rjn csn org fort collins co compuserve hope this clears up some of the confusion feel free to contact me if anyone would like more info regards dave glenn program manager microsoft tt font stuff davidgl microsoft com compuserve
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1,090 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re does dos defragment in article apr cs brown edu ksl engin nosubdomain nodomain kiseok lee writes from ksl engin nosubdomain nodomain kiseok lee subject re does dos defragment date tue apr gmt in article c h m p news cso uiuc edu rhc uxa cso uiuc edu richard writes geoffrey s elbo writes yes and it is the fastest defrag i ve ever watched it did a mb hard disk in minutes i found the ms defrag looks very much like norton speedisk is it just a strip down version of the later i have both norton speedisk and backup so i was wondering if i need to install ms backup richard yes defragger is come from norton if you have norton utility don t bother don t bother if you have cpbackup or fastback they all offer options not available in the stripped down ms version from cps examples no proprietary format to save space probably no direct dma access and no tape drive you need ms defrag if you use doublespace to work on the compressed volume
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1,091 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re pc geos windows os and unix x in article sehari vincent iastate edu sehari iastate edu babak sehari writes with my limited knowladge about the pc geos i came out with following comparison pc geos windows os unix x can run dos programs yes yes yes yes needed add lines deleted price free s a good one costs avaliable on ext card too c compiler don t think so yap yap yap c no yap yap yap fortran no yap yap yap debuger yap yap yap min to run dos m mb hard you guys and gals add to this list so we do not throw our many down the tubes with highest regards babak sehari this list appears to imply that ms windows that has a cost listed above at comes with a c compiler c and fortran it does not of course these are expensive add ons that drive the price way beyond i don t know if the same applies to os as far as unix is concerned there is a free unix linux that has cc c fortran f c xwindows and many other features besides with a large number of utilities that can be optionally added and there is also a free bsd i believe both these unix s are quite robust you can check out comp os linux if you don t want to throw our many down the tubes you ve got to break that list down a little more roderick campbell department of physics memorial university of newfoundland st john s nf canada internet rcampbel weejordy physics mun ca
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1,092 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows on a ramdrive help f langleyrh ccsvax sfasu edu writes stuff del d for bandwidth s sake why sigh if you don t have more than mbs of memory using a ramdrive with windows is a waste of memory windows will access upto mb ram better as memory as to why what you did didn t work it is because driveletters and paths are stored inside the group pif ini files all of the sudden things went from drive c to drive e however if you wanted to copy an application up to the ramdrive and re setup it up that should work normally but as previously stated this will only hurt things unless you ve got more than mbs of ram and are using whats above as the ramdrive i personally have mb s of ram and run a mb ramdrive with a great deal of success however if you are looking to speed up windows the three things i ve noted that work the best are a graphics accellerator card a co processor even an emulator helps some other disk cache besides smartdrive i ve tried several and lightning for windows and norton cache give me major headaches as well i think the purpose the original poster was trying to serve is to avoid the significant amount of disk access that windows does on startup it s like it s trying to it s bit in wearing the damn drive out i estimate it s only reading a mb of programs data but from the performance the drive gives it sounds like they are scattered all over the drive my drive is however regularily compressed what is it that takes so much fuss perhaps if ms would take the trouble to optimize this startup process less people would be wanting to find a solution themselves
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1,093 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re pc geos windows os and unix x in article c he i q news ucs mun ca rcampbel weejordy physics mun ca roderick campbell writes there is a free unix linux that has cc c fortran f c xwindows and many other features besides with a large number of utilities that can be optionally added and there is also a free bsd i believe both these unix s are quite robust you can check out comp os linux i dunno about linux but for bsd don t forget networking well tested at that nfs a fast incredibly stable filesystem and the list goes on for us bsd folk look in comp os bsd chris moderator of comp os bsd announce anti politician and sometime evangelist chris g demetriou cgd cs berkeley edu bsd as depth first search whenever you go to fix something you find that more things are actually broken adam glass
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1,094 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re win nt in article pq v kkt gazette bcm tmc edu raymaker bcm tmc edu mark raymaker says is anyone aware of existing ipx netx software for windowsnt or is attachment to netware a future release please respond to internet mail raymaker bcm tmc edu thanks i believe the beta version of the service is available via ftp on ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win nt called something like nwnt zip there is an index ascii file there which lists the programs in that directory and what they do unfortunately this beta will also disable netbeui and tcp ip over your primary nic so if you really want to run it get yourself an extra nic and bind it to that otherwise wait for next release like i am adriene
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1,095 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | dos emm windows prob has anyone else experienced problems with windows hanging after the installation of dos i have narrowed the problem down to emm if if remove or disable emm windows is ok if emm is active with noems windows hangs if i use auto with emm the system hangs on bootup dave david clarke the well is deep wish me well ac freenet carleton ca david clarke mtsa ubc ca clarkec sfu ca
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1,096 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows shareware monthly information windows shareware monthly wsm is an on line forum for information about the newest and best windows x and nt shareware freeware software wsm is a compilation of submissions from shareware freeware authors in a single windows hlp help system file all types of software may be submitted for entry in wsm utilities applications games programming tools etc wsm benefits windows shareware freeware authors by allowing them to publicize their software releases inform users of updated versions and to increase their installed base of users those searching for specific windows software will benefit by having a complete list of available software available at their fingertips complete with feature lists current prices and any other relevant information windows software authors may submit entries to windows shareware monthly in the following manner compose a short summary of the function of the software include all special features which are unique to your product and which set it apart from other programs in the genre be sure to include specific details such as the current release version where the software is available how much the registration fee costs how much disk space is required any special requirements e g sound card or vbrun dll etc how the author may be contacted etc because text is highly compressible the summary may be as long as is necessary however it is best to keep it short a good guideline is a single screenful of point text at x resolution order forms and other such addendum may be included if desired all submissions whould be in plain text ascii format formatting will be exactly as it is submitted i will simply cut and paste text files into a help authoring system if you require special formatting conventions such as boldface text or italics or a larger font size indicate so clearly within the text file for best results use windows notepad to create the txt file include up to k of windows format bmp bitmap screen shots which display the workings or special features of each program special cases rendering applications for example which require color bitmaps may submit up to k of bmp files all other should observe the k limit and use color format for maximum compatiblity with the software which will be used to create the wsm hlp file stefan olson s help writer s assistant for windows please save the bitmaps with windows paintbrush or wingif include a color bmp of the program s icon ico file many programs are available to convert ico to bmp format or windows paintbrush may be used the bmp will be embedded in the summary text double check for spelling errors formatting corrections etc compress the txt file the bmp of the program icon and any additional bmps into a single file using pkzip any version submit the entry by uuencoding the zipfile and e mailing it to daa tamuts tamu edu if submitting via the internet or compuserve if submitting via america online send a brief message indicating submission and append the zip file then e mail to diegoaa if any changes are required or a new version is released complete the above procedures again send all submissions to the tamuts address and any comments suggestions criticisms to daa rigel tamu edu all entries received before the deadline will be included in the subsequent edition of wsm the editor will not be held responsible for any errors and we reserve the right to make changes to the entries wsm is not limited to shareware freeware software a special area will be devoted to commercially available windows x and nt software commercial software authors should follow the same steps above with the exception of the limitations on size the txt file and bmps may be as large as required and as large as is practical for transmission over phone lines there is no charge for the publishing of either shareware freeware or commercial product entries advertisements for computer hardware software bulletin boards etc may be submitted as well again the same procedures apply with the exception of the size limitations there is no charge for advertising space the first ten advertisements submitted each month will be included subsequent submissions will not be included due to size constraints wsm is currently looking for persons willing to devote the time to author columns within wsm a c c programing section a visual basic section and two windows specific opinion advice columns are envisioned all work will be on a voluntary basis if you wish to aid wsm and author a monthly column on one of the above topics please send us mail at daa tamuts tamu edu or diegoaa on america online the first edition of wsm will be distributed may st via america online compuserve and the internet the deadline for submissions is april th the first edition filename will be wsm zip with each subsequent monthly release continuing in the series naming convention wsm zip etc each edition will be released on the first of each month and the deadline for submission will be at least three days before release
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1,097 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm or truetype which to choose in article apr microsoft com davidgl microsoft com david glenn writes again not true the characters in a tt or type font depend on the maker if someone converts a type font to tt they ll only get the characters in the font of orgin tt allows for much more flexibility in this area as well you can have thousands of glyphs in a tt font file mac ps windows unicode char set and use the characters appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on well yes both type and truetype fonts can contain lots of characters and in both cases plain text fonts will be reencoded to windows ansi in windows and to mac standard roman encoding on the mac no difference there between t and tt and as for fonts with thousands of glyphs right know these are a liabiliaty rather than a great new thing reason is that a font with characters is very large and if you can only access of them you are paying a heavy price in downloading time and printer storage and at the moment there is only one program of that uses partial font downloading for instance all or our fontpack tt fonts have the mac windows char set in them the metrics of the fonts are such that if the font is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac char set yes and t text fonts all have the iso adobe character set which is a superset of windows ansi and macintosh standard roman enocding the question is whether you can get at the glyphs in windows for example you cannot get at the ligatures fi anfd fl both t and tt even though a font may very well have them and while it is somewhat painful to reencode a type font and to create a new windows metric file pfm for it there are utilities out there to allow you do this how do i reencode a truetype font how can i get at the fi and fl ligatures in windows or on the mac are there utilities that make it possible to circumvent the hard wired windows ansi encoding regards a east harmony road bob niland suite internet rjn csn org fort collins co compuserve berthold k p horn cambridge massachusetts usa
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1,098 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | terminal software please reply via email when i use the terminal software for windows such as terminal exe or crossttalk it doesn t use the whole window i mean when the software s window size is max it still scrolls around the of window it does not use whole window i set stty rows but still the same scrolls at from the top of the windows could anyone tell me how to setup these software to use whole window thanks in advance
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1,099 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re pkunzip g in article pn tr l dekalb dc peachnet edu kenneth dekalb dc peachnet edu kenneth palmertree writes hey does anyone know of an ftp site where i can get pkunzip g from i tried using archie with no such luck this version of pkunzip is suppose to correct some promblems when using pkunzip within windows thanks in advance you can get pk from ftp cica indiana edu
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