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From: mds@sgi.com (Mark Stadler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: zbuffering and lrectwrite
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.030918.16191@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 10 Mar 91 03:09:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar10.030239.16096@odin.corp.sgi.com> mds@sgi.com (Mark Stadler) writes:
>In article <76269@bu.edu.bu.edu> tjh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Tim Hall) writes:
>>I was suprised to find out (through experience) that lrectwrite
>>is affected by the zbuffer.  That is when zbuffering is turned
>>
>this should not be the case.  a machine configuration and a sample
>program demonstrating the problem (preferable small) could help
>us in explaining what the problem is (yours or ours).
>
i was corrected immediately after this previous posting.  apparantly
some architectures do allow zbuffer to affect lrectwrite... news to me.
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