Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!seismo! From: @seismo.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.graphics Subject: Info-Graphics Digest Message-ID: <8606221458.AA01627@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 06:00:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8606221458.AA01627 Posted: Sun Jun 22 06:00:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 16:11:03 EDT Sender: daemon@styx.UUCP Reply-To: Info-Graphics@aids-unix Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 162 Approved: info-graphics@aids-unix.arpa Info-Graphics Digest Sun Jun 22 03:00:20 PDT 1986 - Send submissions to Info-Graphics@AIDS-Unix - Send requests for list membership to Info-Graphics-Request@AIDS-Unix Today's Topics: Administrivia: Info-Graphics archives Misc. Requests lisp in CAD tools Tek4014 tester 2nd IMA Mathematics of Surfaces Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Jun 1986 17:05-PDT From: Andy Cromarty Subject: Administrivia: Info-Graphics archives For the past few years, the Info-Graphics archives have been stored on SANDIA-CAD.ARPA and were available to other ARPANET sites via anonymous FTP. Unfortunately, SANDIA-CAD is being removed from ARPANET/MILNET this month. I am searching for a new ARPANET site that permits anomymous FTP and is willing to store the archives, but in the meantime, as of this issue of Info-Graphics, the archives are no longer available for FTP. If you develop a dire need for back issues of Info-Graphics and you cannot wait for a few weeks until I've located another archival site, send me mail at INFO-GRAPHICS-REQUEST@ADS.ARPA and I'll mail you copies. Breaking them apart into mailable chunks will be somewhat tedious, so please don't ask for the archives unless you really "need" them; and remember, they are not small, so you will need many (> 10) megabytes of disk space to store them if you do request them. (The archives date back to 1983.) I will notify everyone in a subsequent issue of Info-Graphics once I have established a new home for the archives. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Regards, Andy Cromarty Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA ------------------------------ at 03:36:07 CDT via GNET with RJE ; 16 Jun 86 10:31:43 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:33:05 +0200 (Central European Summertime) From: XBR2D995%DDATHD21.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Subject: Misc. Requests X-Vms-To: X%"info-graphics@aids-unix.arpa",X%"works@rutgers.edu",D995 Hallo, sorry to trouble the net with this rather simple request. We (see below) are interested in getting informations about some graphic workstations and computers. We would be most grateful, if someone out there could answer the following questions. Please answer directly to me, because I'm not am member of the list. 1.) We are looking for information about the "Silicon Graphics" raster workstation. Can someone give us the address of the manufacturer/dealer for West-Germany, Europe or the States? 2.) The same for the "Sun workstation". 3.) The same for "Convex" computer. I'm not shure wether I'm address the correct audience, because the "Convex" machine is a vector computer. Thanks a lot in advance Martin Knoblauch TH-Darmstadt Physikalische Chemie 1 Petersen Strasse 20 D-6100 Darmstadt, West Germany BITNET: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:37:28 EDT From: Bob Suckling VLD/VMB/BobS Subject: lisp in CAD tools > From: (Anil Khullar) ANK%CUNYVMS1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU > > I recently saw the advanced version of AutoCAD, called AlphaCAD in one of > the engineering labs. . . . > > What are the advantages of having lisp within Autocad as opposed to outside? I have not seen AutoCAD or AlphaCAD, but I am a CAD programmer. If Lisp is on the inside the CAD programs thay can read and write s-expressions(ie. lisp talk). So even if you did run lisp on the outside you would be able to have the CAD tools read this stuff. Also s-experssions are a portable text format that will alow many other programs to comunicate with the CAD tools, as well as store data for later. Another reason is speed. If you do not need to communicate with an external lisp for its' powerful storage and data retrieval aspects then you save the time needed to communicate all together. I have a small lisp, coded in "C", that I compile into programs to give thies capabilities. And so far I have had good luck with it. It is also nice to have "C" coding available when some portion if the evaluation is to slow for production uses. This kind of thing can be whipped up by any good computer hack. (Bob S) ------------------------------ From: Human Designed Systems Subject: Tek4014 tester Date: Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:26 EDT We have developed a set of C test programs to test for Tektronix 4010/4014 compatability as part of the development of our terminal products. We would be glad to offer it to anybody out there, in the hopes that people can add to it and make it a more robust test. We have the original program under VMS, and have ported it to Unix System V and and MS-DOS system (using the Slicer board). Don Krasnick, Human Designed Systems, Inc. (HDS) ------------------------------ id a001813; 16 Jun 86 10:16 BST Date: Mon, 16 Jun 86 10:09+0100 From: Ralph Subject: 2nd IMA Mathematics of Surfaces Conference Mmdf-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at 44d.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK This will be held in Cardiff, Wales, UK from 8th-10th September this year. This will be of great interest to all of you people out there who use surfaces in computer graphics. Invited speakers from UK, USA, Hungary; other speakers from other countries too. Conference fee 80 pounds, residential fee 60 pounds. Reductions for students and IMA members. Come on, dont be put off by all this silly nonsense about terrorism in Europe! Make a trip this year, and come to the conference! Application forms can be had by electronic mailing me at this address, or by writing: Dr Ralph Martin Department of Computing Mathematics, Mathematics Institute University College Senghennydd Rd Cardiff CF2 4AG United Kingdom. ------------------------------ End of INFO-GRAPHICS ********************