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From: oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu (ROQUE DONIZETE DE OLIVEIRA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NCAR graphics
Message-ID: <488beea4.bb89@spam.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 05:00:00 GMT
References: <7425@tank.uchicago.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <7425@tank.uchicago.edu>, by rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert):
> I am thinking of putting up NCAR graphics (the GKS version) on my
> DN10000 running 10.1p.  I'm not planning to run X for a while.  I
> have GPR, but have not put up GMR, though that would be possible
> if necessary.
>   I have a site licence and documentation for NCAR, but before 
> wading through this morass of abysmally written stuff, I thought
> I'd ask if anybody out there had any experience building this
> library (and especially the graphics metafile viewer) for Domain.
> How much trouble am I getting into?
>    I have the 8-plane AT bus color graphics system, if that makes
> a difference.  
>    I don't especially like NCAR graphics, but the price is right.
> If anybody has any suggestions for affordable alternatives, for
> viewing 2D and 3D data, I'd be happy to hear about them.  Does
> anybody have anything to say about Uniras?  

Speaking for myself only, NCAR graphics is a fairly complete package.
And, as you said, the price is right. We started porting ncarg3.0
to the apollos about a week ago. It seems all apollo porting problems
have been ironed out. We had to modify/create about 30 files. Not bad
considering it is about 15 megs. It could be better if Apollo's f77
didn't have so many optimization problems with -opt 3. If some
good soul helps me with my  request about gpr hatch patterns then the
gpr-based ncar metafile viewer will be complete as well. We will send
our modifications to NCAR (within the next 2 weeks or so; we want to
make sure all goes well on the dec3100 and suns as well). You should
be able to get it from them.

     Roque D Oliveira
     oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu