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From: gkn@SDS.SDSC.EDU (Gerard K. Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Regis on GPX
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Date: 28 Jul 88 17:27:59 GMT
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    From:    unmvax!nmtsun!hydrovax@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (M. Warner Losh)
    Subject: Re: Regis on GPX
    Date:    22 Jul 88 17:59:10 GMT
    Organization: NMT Hydrology program

    In article <533@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>, ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk
    (Paul T Ockenden) writes:
    > Okay, as of VWS 3.2,
    [...]
    > Live Icons are fun... DEF /SYS /EXEC UIS$VT_ENABLE_LIVE_ICON, then delete
    > all of your current 220s, and start some new ones up - then try the SHRINK
    > TO ICON option.... Nice.... You get a mini version of your screen in a 
    > 2pt Font... and it's even updated ......

    Well, I'm afraid that those of us who don't have GPX don't get to have
    this feature.  I'm running VMS 4.5 and VWS 3.2 on a VAXstation II (no
    GPX) and just tried what you suggested.  I defined
    UIS$VT_ENABLE_LIVE_ICON to "True" and it didn't work, even after
    getting rid of all of my 220 windows.

On my VS-2000 I can get live icons to work only if my terminal type is set
to something besides VT200 series (like VT100, for example).

    Yet another reason to buy a VAXstation 8000  :-)

I have two of those critters here, and they are pretty neat (I also have some
SGI Iris 4D-70Ts, and some Apollo 590Ts, so they're in pretty heady company).
I'm told by the graphics types around here that their hardware anti-aliasing
capabilities are the best they've ever seen.

They don't run UIS, they run a mangled version of X called HPWS (High
Performance Windowing System).

HPWS .neq. DECwindows, btw.

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