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Subject: Re: CORE or GKS support in X?
Message-ID: <474@bacchus.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 00:00:48 EST
Article-I.D.: bacchus.474
Posted: Fri Apr 24 00:00:48 1987
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References: <268@tropix.UUCP>
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Reply-To: yba@athena.mit.edu (Mark H Levine)
Organization: MIT Project Athena
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Keywords: GKS CORE X

Summary:

In article <268@tropix.UUCP> den@tropix.UUCP (David E. Nichols) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know of (or if there are plans for) a standard
>graphics package, such as CORE or GKS that sits on top of X-windows?
>My only experience so far has been with SunCORE, which has been
>quite nice to work with.
>
>					Dave Nichols
>					seismo!rochester!tropix!den

Project Athena has "hack ported" a CORE (part of Rubel Software's
BLOX   package)   and   adapted   a   GKS  (Visual  Engineering's
GKS/C-Chart/Prochart under Graphcap) to run  under  X.   We  have
discussed  getting  things  like  these to work with X better via
having the vendors install window system hooks (GKS  for  example
thinks  that the terminal has a fixed size and does not know what
an expose event is).  If the programmer  involved  had  given  me
leave I would post his address, but I leave that to him. 

Several vendors have requested information on X11 for purposes of
making product available, but I have no announcements in hand.  I
suspect  they  are  planning  for Version 11.  If you are working
with Version 10, I believe Visual Engineering can  supply  the  X
driver for Graphcap (VE is on 1st St. in San Jose, California, if
memory  serves) which we were using.  I do not know if this works
for or is available on the SUN.  Template has picked up the  BLOX
package  and also might be able to help (they have a PHIGS we are
looking at also). 

I would guess that folks like DEC and IBM  also  have  plans.   I
would be interested in seeing a summary of what you find.  I  did
want to say that such things exist.