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Date:Mon Oct 3 23:23:26 1999 
Subject:Popvision problem fixed (for PC+Linux) 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:991004.01 

Extract from

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS

-- 13. (1 Oct 1999) Aaron Sloman: problem with popvision under linux
PROBLEM
The popvision library in
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popvision/
and
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popvision.tar.gz

had a problem in that the sunrasterfile.p library in
    popvision/lib/sunrasterfile.p
did not cope properly with .ras files when running on a PC in linux
poplog (due to big-endian vs little-endian representations).

A symptom was that the procedure sunrasterfile could not be applied to
the sample .ras files included in popvision/data

FIX
A previous fix introduced to extend the library to work with DEC Alpha
poplog works also for PC+linux. The compile time guard for the fix now
reads

#_IF hd(sys_processor_type) == "alpha" or hd(sys_processor_type) == 80386

This has now been installed in the browsable popvision library and the
tar file. If you have already fetched popvision, it suffices to fetch
and install this file

ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/popvision/lib/sunrasterfile.p
-- 
Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (NB: Anti Spam address)
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