v.digit and SUMMAGRAPHICS/CALCOMP

[Pat Luther]

Nicholas:

I an currently writing a driver for a SUMMAGRAPHICS Digitizer for another
client.  If you are interested, I can develop one for you also- I offer
GRASS support-

Pat Luther

t 06:06 PM 11/1/96 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I have a SUMMA MGIII that can pretend to be a CALCOMP;
>Would like to digitize in GRASS but have not been able to 
>Have tried in SPARC sunos4.1.3, and the sparc solaris2.4
>binaries which have CALCOMP drivers and config files (ccf* etc.)
>The digitizer works on Microstation/NT with SUMMA drivers;
>Any way on the sunos machine v.digit hangs and grass hangs
>at the "writing plus file..." point
>
>On the solaris machine we get "digitizer read error.shall
>we continue y/n?" at the digitizer registration point.
>
>We have set up the sunbox ports for RS232, eepromed the
>ttya-ignore-rts-dtr=true etc. Nothing
>
>Im not even sure  any more as to how the cable should look like
>on the sunbox end.
>
>For now we are creating dxf file in Microstation and v.in.dxf
>into grass, then running v.support. seems to work but we cannot
>d.zoom on these vector (binary) files that are output
>from the process. 
>Please help.
>tia,
>nicolas boretos
>
>
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