Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!jdchrist
From: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: background
Message-ID: <9470@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 15:07:03 GMT
References: <8904271212.aa22446@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <541@voodoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <541@voodoo.UUCP> zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York) writes:
>In article <8904271212.aa22446@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> BUG@campus.swarthmore.EDU writes:
>>We have tried Gavin from sgi.com 's background code.  It produces a pretty,
>>gourod-shaded screen, but one loses the menu bars, tool and demo icons, and
>>so on...
>>              Amy Bug, Swarthmore College (BUG@SWARTHMR)
>
>It works fine on our 4D/70GT and 4D/60T's  -- just like a background
>ought to.  All the menus and icons are there.  However, it doesn't do
>anything on our Personal Iris's.  I haven't had time to look at the code
>yet, anybody have any ideas?
>
>Mike York

It doesn't work on either our 4D/120GTX or our 4D/20 Personal Iris.  I
just does nothing.

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Dan Christensen, Computer Graphics Lab,	         jdchrist@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.	         jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu