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comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 3/5
Author: David B. Lewis
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Subject: 59)! Where can I get OSF/Motif?
You can obtain either OSF/Motif source or binaries from a number of
vendors.
Motif 1.2.3 source is now available; it is based on X11R5.
Motif 1.1 is based on the R4.18 Intrinsics and is finished [7/92] at
1.1.5.
A conformant Motif implementation not based on OSF-derived source is
being developed by fox@crisp.demon.co.uk (Paul Fox).
An OSF/Motif source license must be obtained from OSF before source can
be obtained from the Open Software Foundation or any value-added vendor for
any version. Call the Direct Channels Desk at OSF at 617-621-7300 for ordering
information.
Various hardware vendors produce developer's toolkits of binaries,
header files, and documentation; check your hardware vendor, particularly if
that vendor is an OSF member.
In addition, independent binary vendors produce Motif toolkits for
machines for which Motif is not supported by a vendor; the kits include varied
levels of bug-fixing and support for shared libraries and are based on widely
divergent version of Motif:
Quest Windows (408-496-1900) sells kits for Suns, as well;
IXI (+44 223 462 131) offers kits for Sun3 and Sun4.
NSL (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers kits for the Sun 3
and Sun 4.
Bluestone Consulting, Inc. (609-727-4600) offers Motif 1.1.5 & 1.2 for
SunOS, and Motif 1.2 (X11R5) for Solaris 2.1 & 2.2.
ICS (617-62-0060) makes several binary kits, notably for Sun, DEC.
HP and DEC have announced support for Motif on Sun systems.
Unipalm (+44-954-211-797) currently offers for Sun systems a Motif
Development Kit including X11R4 and based on Motif 1.1.2. The US distributor is
Expert Object Corp (708-926-8500).
BIM ships Motif 1.1 binaries for Suns. Shared library support is
included. Contact Alain Vermeiren (av@sunbim.be) or Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be)
at +32(2)759.59.25 (Fax : +32(2)759.47.95) (Belgium).
SILOGIC (+33 61.57.95.95) ships Motif 1.2 and Motif 1.1 on Sun
machines.
S.I. Systems offers Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1; info: 1-800-755-8649 in
USA and Canada.
Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact
ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333, UniVision (UK) Ltd. (44) 628 82 22 81) ships an
implementation of X11R4 and Motif 1.1.2 (including a shared-library
implementation of libXm.a) for the 386/486 Unix market. Motif 1.1.2 is
also available for Sun Sparc based workstations. It has also announced
Motif 1.2 for Solaris and Linux systems.
in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers development and user
kits for SunOS and Solaris.
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Subject: 60) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5?
Motif 1.2 is based on X11R5.
Motif 1.1, available in source form from OSF as of August 1990, uses
the "vanilla" X11R4 Intrinsics, where "vanilla" means "with just a few
patches"; the file fix-osf which OSF distributes is obsoleted by the
Consortium's patches 15-17. The file fix-osf-1.1.1 distributed with the
1.1.1 version or its subsequent modification needs to be applied after fix-18,
though.
Motif 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 will work with X11R5 if X11R5 is compiled with
-DMOTIFBC; 1.1.4 and later should work with the vanilla R5, although there are
some known new geometry-management problems.
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Subject: 61) Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK?
Sun's XView has a SunView-style API. Version 3.2 is available (7/93)
from xview.ucdavis.edu in /pub/XView/XView3.2 or ftp.x.org in
/contrib/xview3.2.
XView and X binaries for the Sun 386i ("roadrunner") are available for
ftp from svin01.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.70), directory pub/X11R4_386i.
Supported binaries of XView 2.0 or 3.0 include:
XView for non-Sun Platforms (domestic and selected international vendors).
Several are also available from Sun; contact your local sales office.
Amiga GfxBase, Inc. 1881 Ellwell Drive
(AmigaDOS) (408) 262-1469 Milpitas, CA 95035
Fax: (408) 262-8276
SGI
Sony (NEWS-OS)
IBM RS/6000
HP 9000
DECstation UniPress Software 2025 Lincoln Highway
(Ultrix) (908) 985-8000 Edison, NJ 08817
Fax: (908) 287-4929
UniPress Software, Ltd. PO Box 70
44-624-661-8850 Viking House
Fax: 44-624-663-453 Nelson Street
Douglas, Isle of Man
United Kingdom
DEC VAXstation TGV 603 Mission Street
(VMS) (800) TGV-3440 Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(408) 427-4366
Fax: (408) 427-4365
Unipalm Ltd. 145-147 St. Neots Road
44-0954-211797 Hardwick
Fax: 44-0954-211244 Cambridge CB3 7QJ
England
Intel 386 Quarterdeck Office 150 Pico Boulevard
(DOS) Systems Santa Monica, CA 90405
(213) 392-9851
Fax: (213) 399-3802
Intel 386 SunSoft Corporation 6601 Center Drive West
(Interactive 310-348-8649 Suite 700
UNIX and Los Angeles, CA 90045
SCO UNIX)
Stardent Scripps Institute Clinic MB-5
(Stellix OS Fax: (619) 554-4485 10666 N. Torrey Pines Road
and Titan OS) Include mailstop MB-5 La Jolla, CA 92057
By ftp: 192.42.82.8 in pub/binary/{Xview.README,XView.tar.Z}
AT&T's OPEN LOOK GUI 3.0 Xt-based toolkit is now generally available
[2/92]; contact 1-800-828-UNIX#544 for information. Binaries are produced
for SPARC systems by International Quest Corporation (408-988-8289). A version
of the toolkit is also produced under the name OLIT by Sun.
More recent versions of OLIT have been ported to IBM 6000 and DEC MIPS
by both UniPress and ICS. OLIT is also available for HP from Melillo Consulting
(908-873-0075). MJM (Somerset, NJ) makes OLIT 4.0 for HP 7xx series running
HPUX 8.0, DECstations, and RS/6000s [thanks to Joanne Newbauer,
jo@attunix.att.com, 908-522-6677.]
Sun is shipping OpenWindows 3.0; contact your local sales
representative for more details; the package includes toolkit binaries and
header files.
ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) extensible C++-based Object
Interface Library, which supports run-time selection between Open Look or
Motif, is available from 303-678-4626. [5/92]
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Subject: 62)! Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications)
The MIT Software Center ships the X Test Suite on tape.
A multi-threaded version of Xlib based on X11R5 patch 12 is now
available for anonymous FTP from (new version 1/93):
DEC on gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2) in /pub/X11/contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
MIT on ftp.x.org in /contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
Note that this source code will not become the Xlib used in X11R6, although
the Consortium is planning to make Xlib thread-safe with that release.
HP has made available drivers to permit the building of the X11R5
sample server on the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations; the files are on
ftp.x.org in ~ftp/contrib/R5.HP.SRV. [8/92]
The Edinburgh University Computing Service and European X User Group
have created an on-line index of public domain X software. The index is
available through gopher and provides an index of the ftp.x.org/contrib
archive, the comp.sources.x archive and various X software found around the
internet. The service holds manual pages, README files , etc which can be
browsed through. A keyword search of the manual pages is also provided.
Information: xindex@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk.
User-contributed software is distributed through the newsgroup
comp.sources.x, moderated by Chris Olson (chris@imd.sterling.com); also check
that group for posting information.
Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) has been creating a list of freely-
available X sources. The list is stored on ftp.x.org in contrib as
x-source-list.Z. It lists the main storage locations for the program and
international sites from which it may be ftp'ed.
The machine ftp.x.org has a great deal of user-contributed software in
the contrib/ directory; a good deal of it is present in current or earlier
versions on the X11R3, X11R4, and X11R5 contrib tapes. There are also
directories for fixes to contrib software. The file on ftp.x.org in
contrib/0ftpxorg.dir is a quick overall index of the software in that area,
provided by Daniel Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu).
These sites used to and may still mirror ftp.x.org and are of particular
use for Australasia: Anonymous ftp: ftp.Adelaide.EDU.AU; ACSnet Fetchfile:
sirius.ua.oz.
The material on giza.cis.ohio-state.edu, which tends to duplicate
the ftp.x.org archives, is also available via anonymous UUCP from osu-cis, at
TB+ and V.32 speeds. Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu (same as osu-cis!uucp)
for instructions. [the archive is now maintained by Karl Kleinpaste]
A new west-coast UUCP X11 Archive is administered by Mark Snitily
(mark@zok.uucp) and contains the full X11 distribution, the XTEST
distribution, an entire archive of comp.sources.x and other goodies.
The machine zok has a TB+ modem which will connect to 19.2K, 2400,
1200 baud (in that order). The anonymous UUCP account is UXarch with password
Xgoodies. The modem's phone number is 408-996-8285.
A sample Systems (or L.sys) entry might be:
zok Any ACU 19200 4089968285 in:--in: UXarch word: Xgoodies
To get a current listing of the files that are available, download
the file "/usrX/ls-lR.Z".
A full subject index of the comp.sources.x files is available in the
file "/usrX/comp.sources.x/INDEX".
The machine has just the one modem, so please do not fetch large
amounts of data at one sitting.
[courtesy Mark Snitily, 2/90]
In addition, UUNET Source Archives (703-876-5050) tracks comp.sources.x and
provides 800MB+ of compressed programs on 6250 bpi tapes or 1/4" tapes. It
also mirrors ftp.x.org/contrib in its packages/X directory.
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Subject: 63)! Where can I get interesting widgets?
The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) library sponsored by Brian Totty
(totty@cs.uiuc.edu) is now [2/93] available on a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1)
in pub/fwf-v3.53.shar.Z. The set of widgets there is intended to form the basis
for future contributions. To be added to the discussion list, send to
listserv@cs.uiuc.edu a message saying "subscribe <listname> <your-full-name>"
where <listname> is one of free-widgets-announce, free-widgets-development, or
free-widgets-bugs.
An object like the Windows "combo box" is part of the Xm++ class
library.
Harald Albrecht's (albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) Motif implementation
of the ComboBox object from MSWindows is available on
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de in pub/packages/ComboBox.
A library by Jean Michel Leon (leon@sophia.inria.fr) which adds
"inset" facilities to Xt is available on ftp.x.org in
contrib/insetlib-0.2.tar.gz.
The XmBoss widget by Doyle Davidson (doyle@ps.atl.sita.int) is a
generic Motif 1.1 layout manager that implements geometry management through
application callbacks; sources are on ftp.x.org.
The Xew widget set by Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi) contains
widgets for data representation. Version 1.4 [5/93] is on ftp.x.org in
contrib/Xew-1.5.tar.Z.
Peter Ware's Xo "Open Widget" set, which has Motif-like functionality,
is on archive.cis.ohio-state.edu as pub/Xo/Xo-2.1.tar.Z [8/92].
The AthenaTools Plotter Widget Set Version 6-beta [7/92] maintained by
Peter Klingebiel (klin@iat.uni-paderborn.de) includes many graph and plotting
widgets; a copy is on ftp.x.org in plotter.v6b.tar.Z, plotter.doc.tar.Z,
plotter.afm.tar.Z, and plotter.README. The latest versions may in fact be on
ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32) in /unix/tools, which appears to contain
version 6.0.7.
An advance version of Marc Quinton's Motif port of the FWF MultiList
widget is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr:pub/MultiList.tar.Z [143.196.9.31].
Additional widgets are available on the contrib/ portion of the X11R4
tapes; these include the Xcu set.
Paul Johnston's (johnston@spc5.jpl.nasa.gov) X Control Panel widget set
emulates hardware counterparts; sources are on ftp.x.org in Xc-1.3.tar.Z.
O'Reilly Volume 4, Doug Young's book, the Asente/Swick book, and Jerry
Smith's "Object-oriented Programming with the X Window System Toolkits" all
include details on writing widgets and include several useful widgets; sources
are typically on ftp.x.org and/or UUNET.
The Dirt interface builder includes the libXukc widet set which extends
the functionality of Xaw.
A graph widget and other 2D-plot and 3D-contour widgets by Sundar
Narasimhan (sundar@ai.mit.edu) are available from ftp.ai.mit.edu as
/pub/users/sundar/graph.tar.Z. The graph widget has been updated [3/91]
with documentation and histogram capabilities.
A graph widget is available from ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in
pub/Graph.tar.Z; it uses a segment list for drawing and hence supports a zoom
operation.
Ken Lee's Xm widget (demo) that uses Display PostScript to draw labels
at a non-horizontal angle is on ftp.x.org in contrib/dpslabel.tar.Z.
The Table widget (works like troff TBL tables) is available in several
flavors, one of which is with the Widget Creation Library release
(ftp.x.org:/contrib/Wcl-2.5.tar.Z).
Bell Communications Research has developed a Matrix widget for complex
application layouts; it's on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xbae-widgets-3.8.tar.Z [2/93.
The distribution also includes a "caption" widget to associate labels with
particular GUI components. (7/92)
Dan Connolly's (connolly@convex.COM ??) XcRichText interprets RTF data;
it's on ftp.x.org as contrib/XcRichText-1.2.tar.Z.
The XmGraph Motif-based graphing widget is on iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu in
/comp.hp/GUI_classic/XmGraph.tar.Z although it may not be stable.
A TeX-style Layout widget by Keith Packard is described in the
proceedings of the 7th X Technical Conference (O'Reilly X Resource volume 5);
source is available on ftp.x.org contrib/Layout.tar.Z.
A version of Lee Iverson's (leei@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) image-viewing tool
is available as contrib/vimage-0.9.3.tar.Z on ftp.x.org. The package also
includes an ImageViewPort widget and a FileDialog widget. [12/91;5/92]
An MPEG viewer by Jan Newmarch (jan@ise.canberra.edu.au) is on
ftp.x.org in mpeg_wdgt2.0b.tar; it requires Motif.
In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson (rthomson@dsd.es.com) is
available on ftp.x.org as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it
easier to use PEX in Xt-based programs.
A Motif port of the Xaw clock widget is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr
in pub/Clock.tar.Z.
A modification of the Xaw ScrollBar widget which supports the arrowhead
style of other toolkits is on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xaw.Scrollbar.mta.Z.
A release of the R5 Xaw widgets with a 3D visual appearance by Kaleb
Keithley (now kaleb@x.org) is available on ftp.x.org in
contrib/Xaw3d/R5/Xaw3d-0.6.tar.Z. The library, which is binary-compatible
with Xaw, implements a 3D subclass which handles the extra drawing.
The Andrew User Interface System supplies an extensive collection of
widgets including full-blown editors for text, rasters, figures, tables, and
so on.
Also:
The Xmt "Motif Tools", Dovetail Systems's shareware library of 9
widgets and many convenience functions, is available from ftp.x.org:contrib
and ftp.ora.com:/pub/xbook/Xmt in xmt-README and xmt-1.0.tar.Z.
The Xtra XWidgets set includes widgets for pie and bar charts, XY
plots, Help, spreadsheets, data entry forms, and line and bar graphs. Contact
Graphical Software Technology at 310-328-9338 (info@gst.com) for information.
The XRT/graph widget, available for Motif, XView and OLIT, displays
X-Y plots, bar and pie charts, and supports user-feedback, fast updates and
PostScript output. Contact KL Group Inc. at 416-594-1026 (info@klg.com).
The Acme Widget Set from EDB (212-978-8822) includes a 2D graph widget
that can be configured like a stripchart.
A set of data-entry widgets for Motif is available from Marlan
Software, 713-467-1458 (gwg@world.std.com).
A set of graph widgets is available from Expert Database Systems
(212-370-6700).
A set of OSF/Motif compound widgets and support routines for 2D
visualization is available from Ms Quek Lee Hian, National Computer Board,
Republic of Singapore; Tel : (65)7720435; Fax : (65)7795966;
leehian@iti.gov.sg, leehian@itivax.bitnet.
The ICS Widget Databook includes a variety of control widgets and
special-purpose widgets, available on a variety of platforms. Information:
617-621-0060, info@ics.com.
Information on graphing tools may be obtained from info@TomSawyer.com
(+1-510-848-0853, fax: +1-510-848-0854).
in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers the "grinx" widget for
drawing vector graphics with dynamic attributes such as blinking and rotation.
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Subject: 64) Where can I get a good file-selector widget?
The Free Widget Foundation set offers a FileSelector widget, with
separate directory path and file listing windows, and the FileComplete, which
has emacs-style file completion and ~ expansion.
Other available file-requestor widgets include the XiFileSelector from
Iris Software's book, the xdbx file-selector extracted by David Nedde
(daven@ivy.wpi.edu), and the FileNominator from the aXe distribution.
The GhostView, Xfig, and vimage packages also include file-selector
widgets.
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Subject: 65) Where can I find a hypertext widget in source code?
A hypertext widget was posted to comp.sources.x. It can be found in
volume 16 of the archives at ftp.uu.net under the name "hman". The
distribution includes a hypertext widget with both Athena and Motif
compatability (set at compile-time) and hman, a Motif-based man reference page
reader that uses the widget to look up other man topics. [Joe Shelby
(shelby@dirac.physics.jmu.edu); 6/93]
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Subject: 66)! What widget is appropriate to use as a drawing canvas?
Some widget sets have a widget particularly for this purpose -- a
WorkSpace or DrawingArea which doesn't display anything but lets your Xt
application know when it has been re-exposed, resized, and when it has received
user key and mouse input.
The best thing to do for other widget sets -- including the Athena set
-- is to create or obtain such a widget; this is preferable to drawing into a
core widget and grabbing events with XtAddEventHandler(), which loses a number
of benefits of Xt and encapsulation of the functionality .
The publicly-available programs xball and xpic include other versions.
The Display widget in the XG library (libXG-2.0.tar.Z on ftp.x.org) provides a
generic way of drawing graphics in a widget.
The Athena Widget manual (mit/doc/Xaw/Template in the R5 distribution)
includes a tutorial and source code to a simple widget which is suitable for
use.
The Free Widget Foundation set contains a Canvas widget.
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Subject: 67) What is the current state of the world in X terminals?
Jim Morton (jim@applix.com) posts quarterly to comp.windows.x a list of
manufacturers and terminals; it includes pricing information.
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Subject: 68) Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen?
Labtam (+61 3 587 1444, fax +61 3 580 5581) offers a 19" Surface
Acoustic Wave touch-screen option on its Xengine terminals.
Tektronix (1-800-225-5434) provides an X terminal with the Xtouch
touch-screen. This terminal may also be resold through Trident Systems
(703-273-1012).
Metro Link (305-970-7353) supports the EloGraphics Serial Touch Screen
Controllers.
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Subject: 69) Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)?
X11R5 already provides a server to many 386/486 *Unixes* with
support for many of the popular video graphics adapters; and for other
non-MSDOS PCs you can obtain a server from these sources:
XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which
was distributed with X11R5; it includes many bug fixes, speed improvements, and
other enhancements. Source for version 2.0 [10/93] is on ftp.x.org in
pub/contrib, ftp.physics.su.oz.au in /XFree86, and ftp.win.tue.nl in
/pub/XFree86. In addition, binaries are on ftp.physics.su.oz.au, and
ftp.win.tue.nl among other systems. Info: x386@physics.su.oz.au.
Note: this package obsoletes Glenn Lai's Speedup patches for an
enhanced X11R5 server for 386 UNIXes with ET4000 boards (SpeedUp.tar.Z on
ftp.x.org).
Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact
ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333) ships an implementation of X11R4 for the 386/486 Unix
market.
SGCS offers X386 Version 1.3, based on Thomas Roell's X11R5 two-headed
server, in binary and source form. Information: 408-255-9665, info@sgcs.com.
ISC, SCO, UHC, and other well-known operating-system vendors typically
offer X servers.
For MSDOS PCs:
Daniel J. McCoy (mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov) has started posting monthly a
list of non-UNIX servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas; it includes pricing
information. The current copy is kept on ftp.x.org in contrib as
XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z.
An article on PC X servers appears in the March 2, 1992 Open Systems Today.
Also of possible use:
Net-I from Programit (212-809-1707) enables communication among
DOS, OS/2 and Unix machines and can be used to display PC sessions on your
Unix X display.
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Subject: 70) Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS?
eXodus from White Pine Software (603-886-9050) runs on any Mac with
at least 1MB of memory and supports intermixing of X and Mac windows and
also supports the SHAPE extension. Version 5.0 became available 10/93.
Apple's MacX runs on MacPlus or newer machines with >= 2MB of memory
and system software 6.0.4 or later. Version 1.1 is fully X11R4-based. It
supports full ICCCM-compatible cut and paste of text AND graphics between the
Macintosh and X11 worlds, the SHAPE extension (including SHAPEd windows on the
Macintosh desktop), an optional built-in ICCCM-compliant window manager, X11R4
fonts and colors, a built-in BDF font compiler, and built-in standard
colormaps. Upgrades to MacX are available by ftp from aux.support.apple.com.
Info: 408-996-1010.
[Note: MacX is also the name of a vax-mac xmodem transfer utility.]
Machten sells a MacOS X server based on R4 and also a Mach
implementation for the Macintosh, including X and Motif support.
Also:
Liken (1-800-245-UNIX or info@qualix.com) software enables monochrome
68000 Mac applications to run on a SPARC system running X.
Xport (1-800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200) or xport@qualix.com) enables Mac
applications to display on an X-based workstation by turning the Mac into an X
client.
Intercon has a product called Planet-X which enables Mac applications
to display on an X server.
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Subject: 71) Where can I get X for the Amiga?
The new Amiga 3000 machines offer an X server and OPEN LOOK tools and
libraries on a full SVR4 implementation.
GfxBase, Inc. provides "X11 R4.1" for the AmigaDos computer; it
contains X11R4 clients, fonts, etc., and a Release 4 color server. An optional
programmer's toolkit includes the header files, libraries, and sample programs.
Info from GfxBase, 408-262-1469. [Dale Luck
(uunet!{cbmvax|pyramid}!boing!dale); 2/91]
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Subject: 72)! Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home?
Until LBX (q.v.) is more common, an option includes NCD's PC-XView
with PC-Xremote.
sxpc 1.2 (by Robert Andrew Ryan (rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu)) is a simple X
protocol compressor. Sources are on atk.itc.cmu.edu (in sxpc-1.0.shar.Z), or
from ftp.x.org (in contrib/sxpc-1.2.shar.Z)
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Subject: 73) Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation?
The R5 server should be among the fastest available for most machines.
Sun sells a "Direct Xlib" product which improves rendering for
applications running on the same machine as the X server; the replacement Xlib
library accesses graphics hardware directly using Sun's Direct Graphics Access
(DGA) technology.
Several companies are making hardware accellerator boards:
Dupont Pixel Systems (302-992-6911), for Sun.
Megatek's (619-455-5590) X-cellerator board for the Sun 3 and Sun 4 is
based on the TI 34020; the company claims performance improvements of 5x to
10x over the sample X11R3 server.
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Subject: 74) Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board?
Takahashi Naoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, ntakahas@etl.go.jp) has
modified the X11R5 server to support the Sun CG8, CG9, and CG12 boards.
The files are on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xsun24-3.[01].tar.Z. Note that both
files are necessary to build Xsun24-3.1.
The R5 Xsun Multi-screen server is a general purpose replacement for
the MIT server/ddx/sun layer; it supports multiple framebuffers of the same
type and implements several other features above the MIT implementation.
Available on ftp.x.org in the file contrib/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z. [Kaleb
Keithley, now kaleb@x.org, 12/91; the file was updated 24 Mar 1993.]
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Subject: 75) Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50?
Seth Robertson (seth@ctr.columbia.edu) has written Xkernel; the current
version [1.4 as of 8/91, 2.0 expected RSN] is on sol.ctr.columbia.edu
[128.59.64.40] in /pub/Xkernel.gamma. It turns a Sun 3/50 into a pseudo- X
terminal; most of the overhead of the operating system is side-stepped, so it
is fairly fast and needs little disk space.
A similar approach is to run the regular X server by making /etc/init
a shell script which does the minimal setup and then invokes Xsun, like this
example script from mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU:
#! /bin/sh
exec >/dev/console 2>&1
/etc/fsck -p /dev/nd0
case $? in
0) ;;
4) /etc/reboot -q -n
;;
8) echo ND fsck failed - get help
/etc/halt
;;
12) echo Interrupted
/etc/reboot
;;
*) echo Unknown error in reboot fsck - get help
/etc/halt
;;
esac
/bin/dd if=/tmp-fs of=/dev/nd2 bs=512 count=128 >/dev/null 2>&1
/etc/mount /dev/nd2 /tmp
/etc/ifconfig le0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 132.206.41.255
/etc/mount -o ro apollo:/u2/x11/lib /local/lib/X11
/etc/route add default 132.206.41.1 1 >/dev/null
set `/etc/ifconfig le0`
exec /Xsun -once -multidisp -mux -query \
`(sh -vn </local/lib/X11/xdm-servers/$2 2>&1)`
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Subject: 76)! What terminal emulators other than xterm are available?
People from PCS have rewritten xterm from scratch using a multi-widget
approach that can be used by applications. Emu supports features like color,
blinking text/cursors. Emulations can be added on the fly; one emulation
provided is for the Vt220. A version is on the R5 contrib tape; the newest
release is on ftp.x.org [10/93] in contrib/emu.tar.gz. For more information,
contact emu@pcs.com.
A set of modifications for color support to xterm is on ftp.x.org in
xterm_color.diffs.Z.
mxterm, a Motif-based xterm is available from the Paderborner
ftp-Server ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32), file
/unix/X11/more_contrib/mxterm.tar.Z. A version is also on ftp.x.org, as
is apparently a set of color modifications.
The Color Terminal Widget provides ANSI-terminal emulation compatible
with the VTx00 series; a version is on ftp.x.org in contrib/CTW-1.1.tar.Z. A
Motif version is on ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Term-1.0.tar.Z.
kterm 4.1.2 is an X11R4-based vt100/vt102 (and Tektronix 4014) terminal
emulator that supports display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (in VT
mode). Also supported are: ANSI color sequences, multi-byte word selection,
limited Compound Text support, and tab and newline preservation in selections.
kterm 4.1.2 is also available from these anonymous ftp sites:
clr.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z [128.123.1.14]
ftp.x.org:contrib/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z
kum.kaist.ac.kr:pub/unix/Xstuffs/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z [137.68.1.65]
[courtesy of Mark Leisher <mleisher@nmsu.edu> ]
kterm-5.1.1.tar.Z is now on ftp.x.org [12/92].
mterm, by mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, is an X terminal emulator
which includes ANSI X3.64 and DEC emulation modes. mterm can be had by ftp to
larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1), in X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax.
color_xterm is available from ftp.x.org.
Cxterm is a Chinese xterm, which supports both GB2312-1980 and the
so-called Big-5 encoding. Hanzi input conversion mechanism is builtin in
cxterm. Most input methods are stored in external files that are loaded at run
time. Users can redefine any existing input methods or create their own ones.
The X11R5 cxterm is the rewritten of cxterm (version 11.5.1) based on X11R5
xterm; it is in the R5 contrib software. [thanks to Zhou Ning
<zhou@tele.unit.no> and Steinar Bang <uunet!idt.unit.no!steinarb>.]
XVT is available on ftp.x.org's contrib in xvt-1.0.tar.Z and
xvt-1.0.README. It is designed to offer xterm's functionality with lower swap
space and may be of particular use on systems driving many X terminals. A
second version, 2.0, is on unix.hensa.ac.uk in misc/unix/xvt/xvt-2.0.tar.Z
(see also xvt-2.0.patch1).
x3270 is in X11R5 contrib/.
The typescript application and inset in the Andrew User Interface
System offers a shell script interface. It does not provide curses support,
but does permit general cut/copy/paste to construct commands or extract a
portion of the log.
hanterm (2.0), by jksong@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, is an xterm modified to
support Hangul (Korean writing system) input/output. It's available at
several Korean archives(cair.kaist.ac.kr,kum.kaist.ac.kr,etc) and
seoul.caltech.edu in the US. This version makes obsolete an older version not
based on xterm.
Another experimental hanterm implementation, hanterm (3.0 alpha), is
underway by Chang Hyeong-Kyu at chk@ssp.etri.re.kr; it was written to support
a 3-byte Hangul code (dictionary ordered), which can compose all possible
Hangul characters.
Also:
IBM sells a 3270 emulator for the RS/6000 (part #5765-011); it's based
on Motif.
Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X.
VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available.
Grafpoint's TGRAF-X provides emulation of Tektronix 4107, 4125, and
42xx graphics terminals; it's available for most major platforms. Information
(inc. free demo copies): 800-426-2230; Fax. 408-446-0666; uunet!grafpnt!sales.
IXI's X.deskterm, a package for integrating character-based
applications into an X environment, includes a number of terminal-emulation
modules. Information: +44 (0223) 462131. [5/90]
Pericom produces Teem-X, a set of several emulation packages for a
number of Tek, DEC, Westward, and Data General terminals. The software runs on
Sun 3, Sun 4, Apollo, DEC, ISC, IBM/AIX. Information: US: 609-895-0404,
UK: +44 (0908) 560022. [5/90]
SCO's SCOterm (info@sco.COM), part of its Open Desktop environment, is
a Motif-compliant SCO ANSI color console emulator.
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Subject: 77) Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor?
No; these features are not offered by the xterm program. However,
several of the emulators mentioned above do offer these features; the list is
partial:
- mterm, color-xterm, CTW and emu support colored text
- mterm and emu support blinking text
- mterm and emu support block and underline text cursors
- emu supports a blinking text cursor
[Thanks to Michael Elbel (me@dude.pcs.com); 10/93]
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Subject: 78)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor?
You can ftp a version of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable,
self-documenting, real-time display editor, including X11 support, from
prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:/pub/gnu/. Version 19 has some mouse/menu support.
Epoch is a modified version of Gnu Emacs (18) with additional
facilities useful in an X environment. Current sources are on cs.uiuc.edu
(128.174.252.1) in ~ftp/pub/epoch-files/epoch; the current [3/92] version is
4.0. [In Europe, try unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de]. There are two
subdirectories: epoch contains the epoch source, and gwm contains the source
to the programmable window manager GWM, with which epoch works well.]
You can get on the Epoch mailing list by sending a request to
epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu.
Lucid Emacs is a version of GNU Emacs derived from an early version of
Emacs version 19. It currently requires X Windows to run; X support is
greatly enhanced over GNU Emacs version 18, including support for multiple X
windows, input and display of all ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) characters, Zmacs/Lispm
style region highlighting, a customizable Motif-like menubar, more powerful
keymap support, flexible text attributes, support on regional and screen-local
basis through X resources and/or lisp, and support for the X11 selection
mechanism. Lucid Emacs is free; the latest version (9/93) is 19.8, and is
available from labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.112) in the pub/gnu/lucid directory.
The Andrew system on the X11 contrib tapes has been described as one of
the best word-processing packages available. It supports word processing with
multi-media embedded objects: rasters, tables/spread sheets, drawings, style
editor, application builder, embedded programming language, &c. Release 5.1
became available 2 June 92. [Fred Hansen (wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)]
You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.
The InterViews C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG editor called Doc; it
saves and loads files in a LaTeX-*like* format (not quite LaTeX). The package
can also import idraw-PostScript drawings.
A simple editor aXe (by J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk) is available on
ftp.x.org and arjuna.newcastle.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) as aXe-5.1.tar.Z [7/93].
It is based around the Xaw Text widget.
TED is a simple Motif-based text editor; it is a wrapper around the
Motif text widget which offers search/replace, paragraph formatting, and
navigation features. TED is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) as
/pub/bill.tar.Z; here are also executables there.
Point, by crowley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Charlie Crowley), is Tcl/Tk-based
and offers dyanimic configuration and programming in the Tcl macro language.
The editor is available from unmvax.cs.unm.edu (129.24.16.1) as
pub/Point/point1.1-tar.Z.
asedit, by Andrzej Stochniol (astoch@ic.ac.uk) is on ftp.x.org in
contrib/asedit.tar.Z. It is a simple text editor built around the Motif Text
widget. Version 1.2 was released 10/93.
jed is available from rhino.cis.vutbr.cs in pub/software/czech.
xcoral is on ftp.inria.fr; it also has bindings similar to emacs and
has a built-in browser for C and C++ code. A version is also on
ftp.Uni-Oldenburg.DE:pub/unix/appl/edit/xcoral-1.72.tar.Z.
The powerful "sam" editor by Rob Pike is split into a host portion and
a front-end graphics portion, which now has an X implementation. sam is now
available by anonymous ftp from research.att.com, in dist/sam/bundle.Z. Watch
that space for updated versions. There is a mailing list for sam users;
requests to <sam-fans-request@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>. A set of extensions
which augment the mouse activity with the keyboard is available from
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sam/samx2.shar.Z. [5/93]
textedit is part of Sun's OpenWindow's DeskSet and the public XView
distribution.
The vi-like-microemacs editor VILE supports a pure-X mode, in which
it operates much like vi running in an xterm window. Version 3.63 is available
on ftp.cayman.com in pub/vile.
NEdit 2.0 is a Motif-based text editor. Sources are on ftp.x.org
and fnpspb.fnal.gov. Information: edel@fnal.gov.
Also:
Elan Computer Group (Mountain View, CA; 415-964-2200) has announced the
Avalon Publisher 2.0, an X11/OPEN LOOK WYSIWYG electronic publishing system.
FrameMaker and FrameWriter are available as X-based binary products for
several machines. Frame is at 800-843-7263 (CA: 408-433-3311).
WX2 (formerly InDepthEdit) is available from Non Standard Logics
(+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr).
Buzzwords International Inc. has an editor called 'Professional Edit'
that runs under X/Motif for various platforms. Info: +1-314-334-6317.
DECwrite is available from DEC for some DEC hardware and SunWrite is
available from Sun.
IslandWrite will soon be available from Island Graphics (415-491-1000)
(info@island.com) for some HP & Apollo platforms.
Interleaf is currently available from Interleaf (800-241-7700,
MA: 617-577-9800) on all Sun and DEC platforms; others are under development.
The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include a multi-font WYSIWG document composer; for several
systems.
ArborText, Inc. provides an X11 version of its Electronic Publishing
program called "The Publisher". The Publisher is available on Sun, HP and
Apollo workstations. Contact Arbortext at 313-996-3566. [5/90]
Iris Computing Laboratories offers the "ie" editor. Info:
+1-505-988-2670 or info@spectro.com.
BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a menu-driven word
processor with multiple fonts and style sheets. It supports X on
multiple platforms. (617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com) [11/90]
Innovative Solutions (505-883-4252; or Brian Zimbelman,
is!brian@bbx.basis.com) publishes the user-configurable Motif-based Xamine
editor.
Qualix offers a product. Information: info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX
(415-572-0200).
Typex is a Motif-based editor available for several systems.
Information: Amcad Research, 408-867-5705, fax -6209.
WordPerfect offers an X-based version of WordPerfect 5.1 for several
workstations. Information: 801-222-5300 or 800-451-5151.
Bradford Business Systems (714-859-4428) offers SpeedEdit for several
systems.
VITAL (713-781-7406) offers the Crisp editor, a work-alike superset of
the popular BRIEF editor, for several systems. Previously-available source
versions have been withdrawn from circulation.
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Subject: 79) Where can I get an X-based mailer?
xmh, an X interface to mh, is distributed with the X11 release.
Xmail is an X-based window interface to Berkeley-style mail handlers;
it is styled primarily after the Sunview mailtool application and builds on
most Unix systems. The current release [1/92] is 1.4, available in the MIT
X11R5 contrib tape and from ftp.x.org and uunet. Info: Jeff Markham,
markham@cadence.com.
adcmail (0.9 pre-release), on ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk provides all the
normal mail facilities (message management, aliases, etc.); work is underway
to tidy things up a little and to add MIME compliancy.
MMH (My Mail Handler), a motif interface to the MH mail handler, is
available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) in pub/bill.tar.Z; it is bundled
with the TED editor, which it uses for composing messages. Motif 1.1 is
required; if you don't have it, look for DEC and SPARC executables in the same
place. Information and problems to: Erik Scott, escott@eos.ncsu.edu. [1/92]
The Andrew Toolkit supports the Andrew Message System; it is available
from ftp.x.org and many other X archives and from emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu
(128.2.30.62), or send email to susan+@andrew.cmu.edu. Release 5.1 became
available 2 June 92.
You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.
XMailTool is an Xaw-based interface to a BSD-style mail reader; version
2.0 was released 9/92. Information: Bob Kierski, bobo@cray.com or 612-683-5874.
Cem is a Motif-based mailer using standard mailbox formats; it is on
nelson.tx.ncsu.edu in pub/Cem. Information: Sam Moore (Sam_Moore@ncsu.edu).
MuMail, an X-based elm-like mail program is available at
sipb.mit.edu:/pub/seyon/MUMAIL or sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/system/Mail/Mumail-2.3b-tar.Z.
Xelm is a work-in-progress by wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk to construct an X
version of the elm mailer.
Also:
Alfalfa Software offers Poste, a UNIX-based mailer that has Motif- and
command-based interfaces. It includes support for multimedia enclosures, and
supports both the Internet and X.400 mail standards. Information:
info@alfalfa.com, +1 617-497-2922.
Z-Code Software offers Z-Mail for most Unix systems; binaries support
both tty and Motif interfaces. The mailer includes a csh-like scripting
language for customizing and extending mail capabilities. Information:
info@z-code.com, +1 415 499-8649.
Several vendors' systems include X-based mailers. DEC offers dxmail;
Sun offers an X-based mailtool; SCO (info@sco.com) includes SCOmail in its Open
Desktop product. HP offers the MPower product.
Several integrated office-productivity tools include mailers:
The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include a mailer.
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Subject: 80)! Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program?
Drawing Packages:
xpic is an object-oriented drawing program. It supports multiple font
styles and sizes and variable line widths; there are no rotations or zooms.
xpic is quite suitable as an interactive front-end to pic, though the
xpic-format produced can be converted into PostScript. (The latest version is
on the R4 contrib tape in clients/xpic.)
xfig (by Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)) is an object-oriented
drawing program supporting compound objects. The xfig format can be converted
to PostScript or other formats. Recent versions are on the R5 contrib tape or
on ftp.x.org in /contrib/R5fixes (version 2.1.8 [10/93]).
idraw supports numerous fonts and various line styles and arbitrary
rotations. It supports zoom and scroll and color draws and fills. The file
format is a PostScript dialect. It can import TIFF files. Distributed as a part
of the InterViews C++ toolkit (current release 3.1, from
interviews.stanford.edu) .
tgif by William Cheng (william@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) is available from most
uucp sites and also from ftp.x.org and from cs.ucla.edu. It is frequently
updated; version 2.14 was released 8/93 (up to patch9 12/93).
figure in the Andrew User Interface System (versions 5.2 and above) is
a general drawing package which also allows arbitrary Andrew insets to be part
of the drawing.
Commercial Draw Products:
FrameMaker has some draw capabilities. [4/90]
Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
Ficor AutoGraph, 513-771-4466
IslandGraphics offers IslandDraw. Info: 415-491-1000.
BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
(617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90]
Corel Draw, 613-728-8200; ported to X by Prior Data Sciences
800-267-2626
sphinx is a family of tools for the realization of dynamic drawings;
it contains the vector-drawing objecft grinx and an interactve X-based editor.
The toolbox is available from in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de).
Paint Packages:
XPaint 2.1, by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com), is a color
bitmap/pixmap editing tool featuring most standard paint program options. It
allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various
formats, including PPM, XBM, etc. The current version is available for ftp
from ftp.x.org as contrib/xpaint-2.1.0.tar.Z [7/93]
A new OpenWindows PostScript-based graphical editor named 'ice' is now
[2/91] available for anonymous ftp from Internet host lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
(129.236.10.30). ice (Image Composition Environment) is an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript
annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript
rasterizing. (It may require OpenWindows and Sun C++ 2.0.)
The "pixmap" program (info: colas@sa.inria.fr) for creating pixmaps is
on the R5 contrib tape; it resembles the bitmap client. Version 2.1 is now
available. [11/92]
A version of Robert Forsman's (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu) xscribble,
an 8-bit paint program for X, is now on ftp.cis.ufl.edu in pub/thoth/. [2/93]
Although MetaCard is not generally classified as a paint program, a
full 24-bit color image editor is built into the program, which can be used for
light image editing and for producing color icons (info@metacard.com). MetaCard
is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or
128.138.213.21.
pixt by J. Michael Flanery (flanery@mips.com) produces XPM output; it
is available on ftp.x.org.
xpe on ftp.x.org produces XPM output.
Phoenix is a 24-bit editor for editing of photos, notably. An
alpha is on nic.funet.fi:pub/graphics/packages/phoenix.
Commerial Paint Products:
DEC Ultrix includes the dxpaint bitmap editor.
OpenWindows includes the olpixmap editor.
SCO ODT includes the SCOpaint editor.
HP VUE includes the vueicon editor.
Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
IslandGraphics offers IslandPaint. Info: 415-491-1000.
BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
(617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90]
Several integrated office-productivity tools include draw/paint capabilities:
The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include draw/paint capabilities.
[thanks in part to Stephen J. Byers (af997@cobcs1.cummins.com), J. Daniel
Smith (dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com), and David Koblas
(koblas@netcom.com)]
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Subject: 81) Where can I get an X-based plotting program?
These usually are available from uucp sites such as uunet or other sites as
marked; please consult the archie server to find more recent versions.
See also the comp.graphics FAQ.
gnuplot X (xplot), PostScript and a bunch of other drivers.
ftp.x.org [and elsewhere]:contrib/gnuplot3.4a.tar.Z
gl_plot X output only [?]
comp.sources.unix/volume18
graph+
yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au:/pub/graph+.tar.Z [131.170.24.42]
comp.sources.unix/volume8
pdraw,drawplot 2D and 3D X,PS
scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/3dplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/contour.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/drawplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
uunet:~ftp/contrib/drawplot.tar.Z
xgraph plot, zoom. Outputs PS or HPGL.
shambhala.berkeley.edu:/pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.32.132.54]
sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:X11/contrib/xgraph-11.tar.Z [132.230.1.1]
nisc.jvnc.net:pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.121.50.7]
comp.sources.x/volume3
or many other sites
ACE/gr (formerly xvgr and xmgr) XY plotting tools
ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]
XView version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.10.tar.Z
Motif version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.10.tar.Z
[mirrored on ftp.x.org in /contrib/acegr]
XGobi An interactive dynamic scatter-plotting tool from Bellcore
lib.stat.cmu.edu: general/xgobi* [log in as statlib with your email
as the password; or send email to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu containing
the one-line message "send xgobi from general"]
Information from: Debby Swayne, dfs@bellcore.com.
Robot a scientific XView-based graph plotting and data analysis tool
ftp.astro.psu.edu:pub/astrod/robotx0.47.tar.Z [128.118.147.28]
plotmtv a multi-purpose 2D/3D plotter
tanqueray.berkeley.edu:/pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z
XgPlot Motif-based x-y graphing with a movie-loop display
ftp.x.org:XgPlot-4.1.tar.Z
[2/91. Thanks in part to: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti); geoff@Veritas.COM
(Geoffrey Leach); Paul A. Scowen (uk1@spacsun.rice.edu); black@beno.CSS.GOV
(Mike Black)]
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Subject: 82)+ Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program?
Xgrab reads a textual specification of a graph, lays out the graph
using heuristics to minimize the number of edge crossings, and displays the
graph as labeled nodes and edges in an X window. Sources are on
ftp.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) as pub/xgrab.tar.Z. Interviews 2.6 is
required. [12/93]
The DaVinci visualization tool can be used to display graphs.
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Subject: 83) Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet?
A version of "sc" for X and which supports Lotus files is available from
vernam.cs.uwm.edu in xspread2.1.tar.Z. It also includes graphing functions.
Information: soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu.
The GNU package OLEO is available in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/oleo-1.5.tar.Z;
it can generate PostScript renditions of spreadsheets.
Also:
Several of the below are part of integrated office-productivity tools which may
also include word-processing, email, conferencing, image processing, and
drawing/painting, among other features.
Vendor Product Contact Information
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Access Technology 20/20 508-655-9191
Informix WingZ 800-331-1763
Quality Software Products Q-Calc/eXclaim 800-628-3999 (CA:213-410-0303)
Unipress Q-Calc 201-985-8000
Uniplex Uniplex 214-717-0068, 800-356-8063
Digital DECdecision 1-800-DIGITAL
Applix Applixware 508-870-0300, 1-800-8APPLIX.
AIS XESS 919-942-7801, info@ais.com
BBN Software Products BBN/Slate 617-873-5000 slate-offer@bbn.com
Elsid Software Systems Ripcam 613-228-9468
Andrew Consortium table info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu
SAS by the SAS Institute now has a spreadsheet module; the X version is
available on the current popular RISC platforms.
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"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday
--
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