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Hi James, VisAD does have a data format adapter for Vis5D files. Its the visad.data.vis5d.Vis5DForm class and documented in the developers guide. However, it is not very complete and uses native methods to link to the C library for reading Vis5D files. To use it on Windows NT / 95, you'd have to port that C code (included in the VisAD source distribution) to Windowss. The main method of Vis5DForm is a very primitive viewer for Vis5D files (about the same functionality that Vis5D had in 1988) and much slower than the real Vis5D. Also, the VisAD spread sheet, to be announced soon (and now available, bugs and all, in the VisAD distribution) can also serve as a primitive Vis5D file viewer. So, the main problems are porting the C code to Windows, and lack of performance and function compared to Vis5D. Wang HongQing of Beijing University is working on a port of Vis5D to NT, but has no estimated completion date. Cheers, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------- Bill Hibbard, SSEC, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 whibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 608-263-4427 fax: 608-263-6738 http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html "kill cross-platform Java by growing the polluted Java market" - from an internal Microsoft planning document
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