Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!drwho From: drwho@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 3D PostScript, Warps, and more Message-ID: <1991Jun21.231041.7717@athena.mit.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 23:10:41 GMT References: <91172.091232SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1991Jun21.203210.28951@pensoft.uucp> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 70 Thank you for the comments we've been receiving in loads! I'LL BE SENDING ANY FURTHER INFO JUST TO comp.lang.postscript instead of copying both groups. Apparently I left out some useful information in my last post. The ftp site was broken during the first 12 hours we announced it. We forgot to use 'binary more' (see below). Some of the examples simply won't work on anything less than an LPS40 or an on-line interpreter. Sorry!! We're trying to deal with memory issues for our next release. The good news is none of the code depends on having a PostScript 2 interpreter. 1 is fine. I would be happy to e-mail the stuff to anyone without ftp access. For those of you unfamiliar with ftp, my UNIX session looks like this: prompt% ftp eddie.mit.edu Connected to eddie.mit.edu. 220 eddie FTP server (Version 5.66 Sun Feb 17 13:49:17 EST 1991) ready. Name (eddie.mit.edu:drwho): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your user ident as password. Password: ident 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> cd /distrib/three-d-zone 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get threed-zone 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for threed-zone (102400 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: threed-zone remote: threed-zone 102400 bytes received in 12 seconds (8 Kbytes/s) ftp> get globe-threedzone.ps 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for globe-threedzone.ps (114741 bytes).226 Transfer complete. local: globe-threedzone.ps remote: globe-threedzone.ps 114741 bytes received in 9.6 seconds (12 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. prompt% tar xvf threed-zone x Threed/HOWTO-EXAMPLE.txt, 6944 bytes, 14 tape blocks x Threed/breakpath.ps, 5966 bytes, 12 tape blocks x Threed/butterflywarp.ps, 331 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/cylinderwarp.ps, 258 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/ex_break.ps, 8289 bytes, 17 tape blocks x Threed/ex_linmap.ps, 541 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Threed/ex_norm.ps, 411 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/ex_warp1.ps, 623 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Threed/ex_warp2.ps, 7653 bytes, 15 tape blocks x Threed/ex_warpclock.ps, 3888 bytes, 8 tape blocks x Threed/ex_zone.ps, 4488 bytes, 9 tape blocks x Threed/howtozone.tex, 32565 bytes, 64 tape blocks x Threed/latlongwarp.ps, 234 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/linmap.ps, 669 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Threed/sphere2warp.ps, 339 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/spherewarp.ps, 300 bytes, 1 tape blocks x Threed/warpmap3.ps, 937 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Threed/zone.ps, 12109 bytes, 24 tape blocks prompt% du -s Threed 94 Threed prompt% Happy hacking. -Jon Monsarrat drwho@athena.mit.edu