[ REQ 5343]: hmm, bug?

[warp at halmos.math.unb.ca]

Hi there,
	I've got geomview up and running on my Solaris 2.3 box, but
I have a couple of problems:

(1) The major one right now is that I'd like to be able to use gvplot
and writeoogl in Maple V.3, but something weird is happening. They built
fine, but when I run something like:

p1:=plot3d(sin(x+y),x=-Pi..Pi,y=-Pi..Pi);
and do a writeoogl, or a gvplot, I don't get a valid OOGL file. I get:

{LIST
{ INST transform { 
0   0   1   0
  } geom { ZMESH   25   25
} }
}

and that's it :}. display(p1) shows that I have a valid plot, by the
way :). have you seen this problem before? I can't find the problem,
but it'd be hard to root through the gvplot library to find out what's
wrong.

(2) less of a problem, and I may just compile it myself: I used the
Sun4, patched, binary, on here. In other words, it's running in
binary Compatibility mode, as the distribution is SunOS. That's fine
for geomview itself, but not for the ext. modules, it seems. They can't find
one of the X libraries they need, libXext, which I believe no longer
exists on Solaris systems, even in /usr/4lib. So, I can't run the
animator module. Do you have a version of the modules compiles for
Solaris 2.3, or am I going to have to install Motif, and compile
a copy of Geomview for myself? I'd like to avoid that, if at all
possible :).

			Steve Braham

p.s. This is rather important for me. I'm working on simulating
quantum black hole collapse, and also on a Thurston Conjecture
calculation, and I want to use geomview as a visualization tool in
both cases.