Conference 7.286::digital

4509.0. "rgl pointers?" by MROA::MGREENFIELD () Thu Mar 28 1996 02:59

	A major customer is upgrading their vaxcluster to Alpha.
 Discovered late in the actual migration process is that the customer
 has an important application that is being actively developed and
 is based upon an obsolete Digital product called RGL.  I think that
 this is the regis graphics library and was used to do graphics on
 vt125, vt240 and later terminals.  I think that rgl was a product
 developed in one of our product lines (EDU OR LDP?) in the early 80's
 (which is no longer abvailable).

	I would like to quickly look at the sources and see how hard it
 would be to port this to alpha/vms.  The problem is - I have no idea
 how one would obtain the sources for a product no longer suppoorted
 by Digital.  I would be grateful for any pointers to these questions:

	o Is it possible that we GAVE the sources to DECUS or otherwise
	put them in the public domain after we stopped supporting the
	product?

	o Is there anyone that knows how I could obtain a source kit for
	this obsolete product?  Is there some corporate process for archiving
	product source codes (or was there such a process in the early 80's)?

	If anyone has any pointers, I would be most grateful for your help.

	Mike

    Mike,
    
    I'd suggest that you talk to Tim Lasko, MRO1-2/J25, 297-8430.  RGL was
    a competitor to the Tektronix 4014 graphics terminal protocols.  Tim
    should be able to get you to the right people.
    
    Tim 

    Once upon a long time ago, whenever we submitted software to the SSB we
    also submitted a source tape.
    
    Not all groups had this practice.
    
    SSB never told us how long source tapes were kept.
    
    But nevertheless....try ssb!
    
    	/john

By the way,  the replacement product for RGL was GKS, a 2D graphics
library that also outputs ReGIS protocol.  It is still supported 
and run on Alpha.

Garry

I found the sources on the www as part of the decus library.
Thanks for your help.

mike