Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ADS.ARPA!Info-Graphics-Request From: Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.graphics.digest Subject: Info-Graphics Digest Message-ID: <8708161401.AA17962@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 06:00:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8708161401.AA17962 Posted: Sun Aug 16 06:00:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 21:40:46 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 56 Approved: info-graphics@ads.arpa Info-Graphics Digest Sun Aug 16 03:00:14 PDT 1987 - Send submissions to Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA - Send requests for list membership to Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA Today's Topics: HPGL File Snaring ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 87 18:00:39 MDT From: ZSYJKAA%WYOCDC1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Jim Kirkpatrick 307 766-5303) Subject: HPGL File Snaring We'd like very much to run some sort of plot package, such as a subroutine package as well as a monolithic black box package, on IBM PCs and clones. We'd like them to be able to produce HPGL as output, but not just to a device. Our plan is to capture the HPGL onto a file, ship that file down to a host computer, and from there to our color microfilm system. We are currently looking at HP's Drawing Gallery. Unfortunately, it (and many other products) wants only to talk to an HPGL device via an output port, and cannot apparently be convinced to dump the data onto a file instead. Since DOS is so stupid you cannot "pipe" the data elsewhere, there seems two alternatives. One is to write an assembly-language demon which steals the data destined for the alleged output port, and write it to disc. The other is to give up. Does anybody have experience capturing HPGL onto a file from commercial packages? Does anybody have experience or references on how difficult it is to write a demon like this? Is there in fact some way to con Drawing Gallery into saving the data on a file? To convince DOS to do it for me? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Aug 87 13:49 N From: POGET%CLSEPF51.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Subj: Multiprocessing for Computer graphics I'm searching for people who have an experiment with computer graphics on multiprocessors systems. Our lab is developping such a system based on several 68020, so I would be interested in knowing what are the current unsolved problems in this field. This field could be an interesting topic for further discussion on INFO-GRAPHICS. Marc-Henri Poget Laboratoire de microinformatique EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland POGET @ CLSEPF51.BITNET ------------------------------ End of INFO-GRAPHICS ********************