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From: tmca@ut-ngp.UUCP (Tim Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Questions: mostly on MicroVaxII Workstations
Message-ID: <6159@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 14:00:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6159
Posted: Sat Sep  5 14:00:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 06:18:36 EDT
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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	I wonder if anyone can help? We're running MicroVax IIs, with 
MicroVMS v4.5, monochrome workstations and Workstation Software v3.0.


Question 1:
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	I'm trying to make copies of MicroVax II screen-dumps on a 
LaserWriter. I've discovered how to redirect the screendump to a file rather 
than 'CSA0:'. This file turns out to be in SIXEL format and to get it to the 
LaserWriter it has to be in PostScript.

	So the question is: does anyone out there have some program or other 
that converts SIXEL to PostScript? RENDER doesn't do it, by the way.


Question 2:
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	The MicroVax II workstation ought to have a menu utility. The file
UISBG.DAT that contains the info for the login menu seems to be the
beginnings of a menu protocol, but I can't find anything more than this.
Also, is there any way to change the icon picture for a 'shrunk' terminal? 


Question 3:
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	How do you configure a terminal line so that LOGINOUT.EXE doesn't 
know it's there? The problem being that occasional unsolicited characters 
on a terminal line not being used as a login line bring up said process  
until it times out.


Question 4:
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	I like the SWING utility that has been put out on this newsgroup,
thanks v. much to whoever wrote it, and it got me to thinking: could the
same thing be done for a program? Meaning that the bare-bones subroutine
calling structure in many programs looks somewhat like a directory tree
(except for recursion, ASTs etc...) and it would undoubtedly be useful to
have some sort of debugging tool that drew this out in some graphic form. 
Has this been written? Am I living in fantasy land?


Remuneration:
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	If any VaxStation II users out there are interested, I have two neat 
little programs (in 'C'):

	CLOCK: draws a clock face in a little window on the workstation and 
shows the time in both analog and digital format.
	CPU_monitor: Shows CPU activity as a pen chart in a small window.

	Neither are particularly well written (I wrote them when I got bored 
in the early hours) but they work, and people tend to say 'Oooh that's cute'
when they see them.
	Personally, I'd have thought that things such as these would be 
included in the VaxStation software, but DEC seems to be a little slow on 
the uptake here. BTW, if anyone else has workstation-specific programs like 
this - I'm interested.



	Many thanks in advance,

		Tim.

		Dept Astronomy,
		U of Texas at Austin
		Austin TX 78712

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