

>From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Message-ID: <1990Jan21.180128.15439@druid.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 90 18:01:28 GMT

Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario




There is no file format called GKS.  GKS (Graphics Kernel System) is
closely related to the CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) standard however.
This is probably what you are looking for.  If so they are available from
ANSI.  The relevant documents are:

	ISO8632-1	Part 1: Functional Specification
	ISO8632-2	Part 2: Character Encoding
	ISO8632-3	Part 3: Binary Encoding
	ISO8632-4	Part 4: Clear Text Encoding.

And can be ordered from:

Canadian Standards Association
Sales Group
178 Rexdale Blvd.
Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 1R3
(416) 747-4044

You colonials can get it from

ANSI, American National Standards Institute
Sales Department
1430 Broadway
New York, NY, 10018
(212) 642-4900

If you want information on the GKS standard (It is a specification of 
the input and output primitives for displaying 2D graphical data.) you
can get it from the same place.  The relevant documents are:

	ISO 7942	Functional Specification
	ISO 8651-1	Fortran Binding
	ISO 8651-2	Pascal Binding
	ISO 8651-3	Ada Binding
	ISO 8651-4	Don't know.  Might be C but does someone know?
	ISO 8805	GKS-3D
	ISO 8806	GKS-3D Bindings



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