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From: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charles E. Towne)
Subject: Re: prefposition'ing psview
Message-ID: <1990May3.170422.29164@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charles E. Towne)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
References: <1990Apr27.143504.3705@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <7044@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 90 17:04:22 GMT

In an earlier article I asked about defining a default position and
size for the psview window.  Prefposition doesn't work with psview.  
Mark Callow at SGI (msc@ramoth.sgi.com) responded: 

>You are right.  Psview defines its own PaintIcon functions which just
>paints the FrameLabel.  There isn't any way to define a default position.
>
>Note you can use the -F option to give Frame a fixed size window suitable
                                        ^^^^^ 
                                 he really means psview
>for an 8.5 * 11 inch page.  I find this a lot more convenient than having
>to stretch out the window.

This works nicely, and does most of what I wanted.  Thanks, Mark.

By looking at the source code for psview, I discovered there are,
apparently, several options like this that aren't documented in the 
printed or on-line man page.  I'm not a C or NeWS programmer (not yet, 
anyway :-)), so I'm not sure what they all do.  Could someone 
knowledgeable describe these options?  (Or, even better, post or point 
the way to an up-to-date man page for psview?)  Thanks. 

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Charles E. Towne                     Email: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov  
MS 5-11                              Phone: (216) 433-5851
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