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From: tundra@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: CGM display program for X
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Date: 5 Jul 90 20:37:00 GMT
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>>>Is there a Computer Graphics Metafile display program for X? I tried looking
>>>on expo, but I might have missed it.

NCAR is now has an X previewer.  They have two programs 
that do metafiles on X.  They are "idt" and "ctrans",
or "ftrans".  There may be come differences between 
NCAR and standard metafiles though.  NCAR Graphics on
X is a lot faster than over 9600 Baud lines, by the way.

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