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Re: [S] spin on Solaris-Xceed-NT

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Subject: Re: [S] spin on Solaris-Xceed-NT
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:52:49 +0100 (BST)
Reply-to: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:21:43 +0200
> From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> 
> >>>>> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Christian Hoffmann <christian.hoffmann@wsl.ch> 
said:
> 
>     ChHo> Can anybody comment on the fact that
> 
>     ChHo> "spin"
> 
>     ChHo> - leaves traces of points on the screen, making it difficult to 
> use, 
>     ChHo> - does not react instantaneously to pressing/relieving mouse clicks 
>     ChHo> - cannot be stopped without quitting
> 
> I think all these are genuine for spin()/brush();  not Xceed specific.

Um: No problem here with Exceed 6 on NT with a Matrox Productriva G100
displaying spin from S-PLUS 3.4 on Solaris 2.6.  I suspect either
Exceed (what version?) or the graphics adapter is the problem.  I don't
see any problems on a Sun X server either.

>     ChHo> I am using S-Plus Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3
>     ChHo> : 1996 and Xceed to interface with Windows NT 4.0.
> 
> ``Everyone I know'' uses  Xgobi instead of  spin() or brush().
> 
> It's multiple times better and it's freely available, 
> unfortunately not free in the sense of Open Source Software (OSS) / GNU sense.
> 
>           -> http://www.research.att.com/~andreas/xgobi/

The official URL is now

http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/

although the old one still works.

> Brian Ripley might comment on how Xgobi can be made to run under Win9x.

Just get http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/SWin/xgobi.zip. This gives me the
opportunity to say that this was updated a few days ago to the June 1999
version of XGobi.


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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