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liut
Post subject: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 26, 2006 - 06:58 AM
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Pls tell me how to open cad files in QNX 2.x?
Have any 3rd party products to open it?
 
   
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maschoen
Post subject: RE: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 26, 2006 - 04:01 PM
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The dumb answer, is with fopen(). That is how you open any file in QNX 2.x. Were you hoping for a utility to read a "cad" file that understands the format? Well I don't know what you mean by that. Do you mean some specific format of file, maybe one that has the form *.cad?
 
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liut
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 01:39 AM
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Because I want to draw building map. I have these file drawed by Autocad. So
I hoping for a utility to read or translate the Autocad file or bmp file.
 
   
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Colin Burgess
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 02:03 AM
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Do you mean DXF files?

There is no native QNX lib to do this, but as per

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Drawing_Interchange_file_format

you can read the spec for DXF files here

http://www.autodesk.com/dxf

We used to use DXF files back in the day, I don't remember them being too complex.

And if you have them converted to BMP (and there are plenty of free utils out there
to do that) then it's not a big deal to draw a BMP.

What display system are you using?


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Because I want to draw building map. I have these file drawed by Autocad. So
I hoping for a utility to read or translate the Autocad file or bmp file.

 
   
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Thunderblade
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 02:14 PM
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Are you really using a QNX 2.x system? What are you using it for?

"liut" <liut@stee.stengg.com.cn> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Pls tell me how to open cad files in QNX 2.x?
Have any 3rd party products to open it?

 
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Joan Baucells
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 03:05 PM
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QNX2 doesn't work with current hardware (I guess they stopped working
with first original Pentium CPUs).
So what hardware are you using?
Have you reserved some spare hardware parts?

Malte Mundt wrote:

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Are you really using a QNX 2.x system? What are you using it for?

"liut" <liut@stee.stengg.com.cn> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Pls tell me how to open cad files in QNX 2.x?
Have any 3rd party products to open it?

 
   
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Mario Charest
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 04:14 PM
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"Joan Baucells" <"Joan Baucells"@NoSpam.es> wrote in message
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QNX2 doesn't work with current hardware (I guess they stopped working
with first original Pentium CPUs).
So what hardware are you using?
Have you reserved some spare hardware parts?

You can still get 386 board no problem. Of course if one was using 386
desktop machine that's a problem, but in the industrial world that's not
that big of an issue. Google it up and you'll find plenty.

I even found some cards with 186 ;)

Quote:

Malte Mundt wrote:

Are you really using a QNX 2.x system? What are you using it for?

"liut" <liut@stee.stengg.com.cn> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Pls tell me how to open cad files in QNX 2.x?
Have any 3rd party products to open it?


 
   
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Sean Boudreau
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 04:28 PM
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Mario Charest <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote:

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"Joan Baucells" <"Joan Baucells"@NoSpam.es> wrote in message
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QNX2 doesn't work with current hardware (I guess they stopped working
with first original Pentium CPUs).
So what hardware are you using?
Have you reserved some spare hardware parts?

You can still get 386 board no problem. Of course if one was using 386
desktop machine that's a problem, but in the industrial world that's not
that big of an issue. Google it up and you'll find plenty.

I even found some cards with 186 Wink

People have used QNX2 on pentium I, II, III ... successfully.
One big issue was with floppies. YMMV.

-seanb
 
   
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maschoen
Post subject: RE: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 05:23 PM
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A couple comments.

There is no QNX 2 utility that I know of that will read AutoCAD files. You might find a free utility with source somewhere that you can port to QNX 2. Either that, or a file format specification will make it possible. It does seem a little bizzare that you would be using QNX 2 to do this now.

QNX 2 will work with Pentium Class processors. They are backward compatible with 486's etc.
The big problem is the speed of the processor, of which there are two classes of problems. The main one is the floppy disk driver. I have a 333Mhz PII laptop that works fine with QNX 2, but to load it I had to turn off the processor caches to load it. Once loaded, it works fine at full speed without floppy access, or at a very slow speed with the cache disabled.

The second speed problem is related to the QNX 2 QNET. There is a race condition bug where using fast processors you get half closed virtual circuits. Eventually you can lose all of this resource, and the network will no longer work until you reboot. There was a utility around at one time to clean this up, but I didn't have good luck with it.
 
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Mario Charest
Post subject: Re: How to open cad files in QNX 2.x  PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 - 07:25 PM
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"Sean Boudreau" <seanb@qnx.com> wrote in message
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Mario Charest <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote:

"Joan Baucells" <"Joan Baucells"@NoSpam.es> wrote in message
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QNX2 doesn't work with current hardware (I guess they stopped working
with first original Pentium CPUs).
So what hardware are you using?
Have you reserved some spare hardware parts?

You can still get 386 board no problem. Of course if one was using 386
desktop machine that's a problem, but in the industrial world that's not
that big of an issue. Google it up and you'll find plenty.

I even found some cards with 186 ;)

People have used QNX2 on pentium I, II, III ... successfully.
One big issue was with floppies. YMMV.

It also works in VMWare and I had no problem with floppy.

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-seanb
 
   
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