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Today's Topics:

 Administrivia: Info-Graphics archives
  Misc. Requests
  lisp in CAD tools
 Tek4014 tester
  2nd IMA Mathematics of Surfaces Conference

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Date: 15 Jun 1986 17:05-PDT
From: Andy Cromarty <Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA>
Subject: Administrivia: Info-Graphics archives

For the past few years, the Info-Graphics archives have been
stored on SANDIA-CAD.ARPA and were available to other ARPANET
sites via anonymous FTP.  Unfortunately, SANDIA-CAD is being removed
from ARPANET/MILNET this month.  I am searching for a new ARPANET site
that permits anomymous FTP and is willing to store the archives,
but in the meantime, as of this issue of Info-Graphics, the archives
are no longer available for FTP.

If you develop a dire need for back issues of Info-Graphics and you
cannot wait for a few weeks until I've located another archival site,
send me mail at INFO-GRAPHICS-REQUEST@ADS.ARPA and I'll mail you copies.
Breaking them apart into mailable chunks will be somewhat tedious, so
please don't ask for the archives unless you really "need" them; and
remember, they are not small, so you will need many (> 10) megabytes of
disk space to store them if you do request them.  (The archives date back
to 1983.)

I will notify everyone in a subsequent issue of Info-Graphics once I
have established a new home for the archives.  Thanks for your patience
and understanding.

	Regards,

					Andy Cromarty
					Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA

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  at 03:36:07 CDT
          via GNET with RJE ; 16 Jun 86 10:31:43
Date:     Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:33:05 +0200 (Central European Summertime)
From: XBR2D995%DDATHD21.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject:  Misc. Requests
X-Vms-To: X%"info-graphics@aids-unix.arpa",X%"works@rutgers.edu",D995

Hallo,

sorry to trouble the net with this rather simple request.

We (see below) are interested in getting informations about some
graphic workstations and computers. We would be most grateful, if someone
out there could answer the following questions. Please answer directly
to me, because I'm not am member of the list.

1.) We are looking for information about the "Silicon Graphics" raster
    workstation. Can someone give us the address of the manufacturer/dealer
    for West-Germany, Europe or the States?
2.) The same for the "Sun workstation".
3.) The same for "Convex" computer. I'm not shure wether I'm address the
    correct audience, because the "Convex" machine is a vector computer.

Thanks a lot in advance

Martin Knoblauch

TH-Darmstadt
Physikalische Chemie 1
Petersen Strasse 20
D-6100 Darmstadt, West Germany

BITNET: <XBR2D995@DDATHD21>

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Date:     Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:37:28 EDT
From: Bob Suckling VLD/VMB/BobS <bobs@BRL.ARPA>
Subject:  lisp in CAD tools

> From: (Anil Khullar)  ANK%CUNYVMS1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
> 
> I recently saw the advanced version of AutoCAD, called AlphaCAD in one of
> the engineering labs.		. . .
> 
> What are the advantages of having lisp within Autocad as opposed to outside?

	I have not seen AutoCAD or AlphaCAD, but I am a CAD programmer.	

	If Lisp is on the inside the CAD programs thay can read and write
s-expressions(ie. lisp talk).  So even if you did run lisp on the outside
you would be able to have the CAD tools read this stuff.  Also s-experssions
are a portable text format that will alow many other programs to comunicate
with the CAD tools, as well as store data for later.

	Another reason is speed.  If you do not need to communicate with
an external lisp for its' powerful storage and data retrieval aspects then
you save the time needed to communicate all together.
	
	I have a small lisp, coded in "C", that I compile into programs to
give thies capabilities.  And so far I have had good luck with it.  It is
also nice to have "C" coding available when some portion if the evaluation
is to slow for production uses.  This kind of thing can be whipped up by any 
good computer hack.

(Bob S)

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From: Human Designed Systems <Hds%upenn.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Tek4014 tester
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:26 EDT

We have developed a set of C test programs to test for Tektronix 4010/4014
compatability as part of the development of our terminal products.
We would be glad to offer it to anybody out there, in the hopes that
people can add to it and make it a more robust test.  We have the
original program under VMS, and have ported it to Unix System V and
and MS-DOS system (using the Slicer board).

Don Krasnick, Human Designed Systems, Inc. (HDS)

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           id a001813; 16 Jun 86 10:16 BST
Date:  Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:09+0100
From: Ralph <MartinRR%multics.cardiff.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject:  2nd IMA Mathematics of Surfaces Conference
Mmdf-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at 44d.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK

This will be held in Cardiff, Wales, UK from 8th-10th September this
year.  This will be of great interest to all of you people out there who
use surfaces in computer graphics.  Invited speakers from UK, USA,
Hungary; other speakers from other countries too.
 Conference fee 80 pounds, residential fee 60 pounds.  Reductions for
students and IMA members.
 Come on, dont be put off by all this silly nonsense about terrorism in
Europe!  Make a trip this year, and come to the conference!
 Application forms can be had by electronic mailing me at this address,
or by writing:
 Dr Ralph Martin
 Department of Computing Mathematics,
 Mathematics Institute
 University College
 Senghennydd Rd
 Cardiff
 CF2 4AG
 United Kingdom.



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