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From: kurt@cashew.asd.sgi.com (Kurt Akeley)
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Subject: Re: What's with the polymode call.....
Keywords: does it work?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.000816.14136@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 00:08:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.055225.3382@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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In article <1991Jun7.055225.3382@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, echidna@ecr.mu.oz.au (Eric H. Echidna) writes:
|> 
|> 	We recently had some code that made use of the 'polymode' call
|> to change the way various polygons were being filled. It didn't have
|> ant effect at all. This is on a PI 4D25. Here is an example that doesn't
|> work....what's up?

Polymode isn't supported by the PI 4D25.  From the man page:

     IRIS-4D G, GT, and GTX models, and the Personal Iris, do not support
     polymode.  Use getgdesc to determine whether support for polymode is
     available.

-- Kurt