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From: baker@csl.dl.nec.com (Larry Baker)
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Subject: Re: GKS Manual
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Date: 17 May 91 21:58:20 GMT
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cpr4k@brinx.acc.Virginia.EDU (Christian P. Roberts) writes:
|> I am looking for a manual which outlines the GKS routines, listing
|> the parameters required, reasonable values, etc.  We have installed
|> Xgks, but there is no description of the routines.

ANSI can be reached at 1340 broadway, New York, New York, 10018.
The reference(s) you will need are:

"Computer Graphics - Graphical Kernel System (GKS) Functional Description," 
ANSI X3.124-1895 ($50, I think).  This includes information on the FORTRAN
language binding, which won't help you much with Xgks (if you're using the one
off of the X11R4 distribution).

You will also need the standard for the C-language binding, but I don't have a
reference for that.  I don't even know what the status of the standard for the C-language
binding is. (The FORTRAN binding is X3.124.1-1985, so I imagine the C version
is X3.124.*-1985).

Cheers,

LEB
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Larry Baker
NEC America C&C Software Laboratories, Irving (near Dallas), TX
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