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From: daniel@island.uu.net (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.graphics,comp.sys.hp
Subject: I need more example HPGL files
Message-ID: <2151@island.uu.net>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:08:07 GMT
Reply-To: daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith)
Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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	I posted a few weeks ago, asking for sample HPGL files.  I got a
few but I'd really like to see some more.  Flood my mailbox!

	What I am looking for are complex examples, with legal HPGL syntax;
if you send me something that's full of some other manufacturers' extensions
please let me know that so that I don't rip my hair out trying to figure
out what is going on.  Don't send me plots of anything confidential or
proprietary.  Types of things I'd love to see: scaling, directional text,
relative lines and arcs, filled polygons.

	I'm including a tarmail script; please use it on your hpgl
files.  There are ^C's on lines that have labels and escape sequences.
HPGL files might look like plain text (given suitable amounts of coffee
and deadlines, you may believe this) but they aren't :-)

	FOR THE ME-TOO'S:  yes, I will send hpgl files to you this
time (those who wrote me last time, email me again, I'll make a list).

	Below is a tarmail script whichcan safely handle large files, sample
usage would be:

tarmail daniel@island.com \~sample hpgl files\" *.plt

	thanks very much in advance!

				Daniel


if test $# -lt 3; then
  echo "Usage: tarmail mailpath \"subject-string\" directory-or-file(s)"
  exit
else
  mailpath=$1
  echo "mailpath = $mailpath"
  shift
  subject="$1"
  echo "subject-string = $subject"
  shift
  echo files = $*
  tar cvf - $* | compress | btoa | split -700 - /tmp/tm$$
  n=1
  set /tmp/tm$$*
  for f do
    {
	echo '---start beef'
	cat $f
	echo '---end beef'
    } | mail -s "$subject - part $n of $#" $mailpath
    n=`expr $n + 1`
  done
  rm /tmp/tm$$*
fi

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