Re: [Update REQ 5862]: ConvxOS platform

[adbened at U.Arizona.EDU]

On Tue, 28 May 1996 daemon at geom.umn.edu wrote:

> You may be in luck.  We're unlikely to ever deal with a Convex, but the
> mathematica-to-geomview connection can work remotely.  The only thing needed
> on the Convex is the ability to use "rsh" (remote-shell) to a machine where
> geomview can run.   By default, if you invoke Geomview.m or OOGL.m while
> the "DISPLAY" environment variable refers to another machine, it will
> try to rsh to that machine.  If that's the wrong thing to do, see
> the setting of the DisplayHost option, e.g.
>    << Geomview.m
>    SetOptions[ Geomview, DisplayHost -> myiris.some.where.edu ]
> 
> 
> assign: slevy

   Actually, I intend to run Mathematica as a batch file (since the
calculations take several hours).  Inside Mathematica, there would be
a line that says
   << OOGL.m
   WriteOOGL["mygraphics.oogl", %%]

Now, OOGL.m  invokes math2oogl as well.  However, since math2oogl
comes as a binary file (unlike OOGL.m which is a text file), it is
machine specific.  I tried to put OOGL.m and math2oogl in my path
while in Convex.  However, the Mathematica output complains about
math2oogl.  Is this a hopeless case?  Or is there a source code
for math2oogl?  Thanks again.

Alto Benedicto     adbened at aruba.ccit.arizona.edu