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Re: MIT PHIGS <-> DEC PHIGS

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From: John Lu
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 21:13
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In article <hersh.712873443@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>, hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:
|> gad@kpc.com (Gerard Denga - Consultant) writes:
|> 
|> >	In the C binding, is there a set of functions or macros to
|> >	allow use of functions named differently, eg: popen_phigs(MIT)
|> >	as popenphigs(DEC)? Please reply to this newsgroup.
|> 
|> >		Thanks.
|> >			Gerard
|> 
|> 
|> There is none provided by MIT. MIT uses the ISO Phigs C Binding (and the
|> PHIGS Plus one as well), don't understand why DECs is different...
|> 

SunPHIGS 1.4 has the same name conventions as DEC phigs. 
SunPHIGS 2.0 has changed its name convention to the one
used in PEX-SI. SunPHIGS 2.0 also provides filters to convert 
the programs prior 2.0 to the ISO PHIGS C Bindings.   
Don't know if those filters are free, though.

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-- John Lu 
   luj@ecn.purdue.edu
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Subject: Re: MIT PHIGS <-> DEC PHIGS
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