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Re: Newbie data question

#236
From: John Hwa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:55
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In article <43847@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:
|> 
|> So, I haven't used Explorer before, except once about
|> a year ago when it was brand new.  I'm finding it hard 
|> to get the answer out of the documentation (we didn't
|> get any Explorer manuals with the upgrade to IRIX 4.0.1), 
|> for what should be a simple question.  I have a data file 
|> consisting of four values per line; 
|> x-coord, y-coord, z-coord, datavalue.
|> 
|> How do I get this into Explorer?
|> 
|> 
|> I can probably write a GL program in a few days to
|> do this, but seems like  something Explorer should 
|> handle easily.  
|> 
|> Thanks for any pointers!
|> 
|> Dave
|> 
|> -- 
|> Dave DeMers			 	        demers@cs.ucsd.edu
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In the ftp site, swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov (139.88.54.33), you can
find some dscribe examples that are similiar to what you want.
Look under the directory explorer/modules/Datascribe_Examples.
Once you extract the files, the dscribe modules you want to look at
is ReadXYZData.


John P. Hwa
hwa@sgi.com
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