Summary Mdraw is an object oriented drawing package for ReGis terminals. Startup Information Programs needed (all these should go in the `mdraw:' directory) =============== mdraw.exe - Object oriented drawing program vregis.exe - convert mdraw file to `.pic' screen dump and/or TeX file mdr2cgm.exe - convert mdraw file to `.cgm' for Manuscript/Freelance sixel.com - Runs one of the following screen dump programs: sixland.exe - Landscape screen dump sixel.exe - Portrait screen dump tree.exe - Shows inter-relations of associated files and attached notes Logicals and symbols needed =========================== mdraw - `assign mdraw' mdraw - `mdraw :== $mdraw:mdraw.exe' sixel - `sixel :== @mdraw:sixel.com' vregis - `vregis :== $mdraw:vregis.exe' mdr2cgm - `mdr2cgm :== $mdraw:mdr2cgm.exe' mtree - `mtree :== $mdraw:tree.exe' Before drawing, make sure the terminal can draw ReGIS graphics. To start drawing, just type `mdraw' at the prompt, (if you are using a two button mouse, you may type 'mdraw /pc' ) and you will see a title screen which displays the version number. Press a key (try not to use return) or mouse button and the screen will clear and crosshairs will appear. You may now begin entering commands, either from the keyboard or through the mouse and menu. To turn the menu on, press the F20 key. To get a simple help screen, press the `help' key. =========== Once you have an mdraw file (with the extension `.mdr') that you want to print out to a DEC laser printer, you can call the `vregis' command. (Note: this does a screen dump which is a terminal hardware thing, so terminal emulators don't do it so well.) The mdraw to sixel conversion program `vregis' has command line parameters: `vregis [-v] [-x] [-o] [-t] [-l] file[.ext] (...file[.ext]...) '. The `-v' will just view the picture without doing any screen dump, so there will be no raw `.pic' file. The `-x' means to output a TeX file, this file may be referenced from another TeX file with the \input command. The `-o' means to output a TeX file and also includes commands to draw a box around the image. This file may be included in any other TeX file just like the -x option. The `-t' is like `-x' but has TeX handle the smaller fonts, but it doesn't handle math characters, so you'll have to go in and put dollar signs around all the funny symbols. The `-l' means to output a landscape `.pic' file, with no TeX file. It defaults to look for a `.mdr' file, and if you give it a `.ext' extension the rest of the command line will be assumed to be that type file, until another file extension is found. =========== If you would like to import mdraw files into Manuscript or Freelance, you will have to convert the .mdr file into a .cgm (computer graphics metafile). There is a program called mdr2cgm.exe (of course) in the mdraw: directory. The format is: mdr2cgm When you send the resulting .cgm file to a PC, make sure you transfer it in BINARY mode rather than ASCII.