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In article <63918@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt8166a@prism.gatech.EDU (DOERSCHUK,DAVID OAKES) writes:
> I am taking a graphical interfaces class, and the system being
> used is PHIGS on Sun ipc machines.  I'm having a difficult time
> of it, in part because the text ("A Practical Introduction to
> PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS", by T.L.J. Howard, et.al. c.1991) does not
> seem to use the same names for functions, structures, and #defines
> as Sun PHIGS does.  I'm told that our version of Sun PHIGS is the
> most recent, although I can't find the version number by grepping
> the .h files for "ersion" and "ev" ({V|v}ersion and {R|r}ev). 
> 
> Is there an electronic version of the Reference Manual, or at 
> least a detailed list of the functions/structs/#defines and
> their meanings/usage?  I'm using the phigsextern.h file as a
> syntax model for function calls, but at my level of competence
> thats not enough information.
> 
I've been using the same book as you refer, and have met the same problems.
Seems like you are using SunPHIGS, while I am using the PHIGS API supplied
with MIT's X11R5. As far as I know both of these use the same naming-conventions.

My solotion to overcome these problems has been to use the PHIGS reference
manual pages supplied with X11R5 (in the mit/doc/extensions/PEX/SI/PHIGS catalog).
Here you will find man-pages for every PHIGS-function, with description of
datastructures etc. If you put "underscores" in the function-names provided
in the "T.L.J. Howard..." book you get most of the names correct. See the man-
pages for details.

If you don't have the X11R5 code it might be ftp'ed from "export.lcs.mit.edu"

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