Michael Jones (mtj++at++babar)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:25:12 -0800
This should be considered as a beta release of the loader: it supports all the
features we plan to release it with in our upcoming 2.0 release, it has no
known bugs, the code has passed our scrutiny, and it has been able to
successfully digest all the Inventor files we've tried. This includes the
databases used to make the cover images for the Inventor Mentor and OpenGL
books (thanks to Rikk Carey and Gavin Bell for that data) as well as many
megabytes of CAD data provided by Michael Schulman of SGI's CAD/CAM market
development group. We feel that it is now ready to try your data too.
These assurances aside, however, I ask each person who tests the new loader to
let us know right away of any problems you encounter. Only with this input (and
only if it is within the next few weeks) can we use your beta testing of the
loader to improve the next release.
To get the loader, you'll need to FTP to sgi.com and get the file:
sgi.com:~ftp/pub/pfiv.tar.Z
Once you have it, simply:
uncompress pfiv.tar
tar -xvf pfiv.tar
cd pfiv
more README
This new loader is the work of many hands in both the IRIS Inventor and IRIS
Performer teams, and we all hope it will be helpful to users of both products
worldwide.
Best wishes,
Michael Jones
--Be seeing you, Phone:415.390.1455 Fax:415.390.2658 M/S:8U-590 Michael T. Jones Silicon Graphics, Advanced Graphics Division mtj++at++sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
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