Software Bundled with IRIX 6.5.7

IRIX 6.5.7
Applications CD

Scroll down this page to read about the bundled set of desktop software applications, including Web tools, desktop productivity tools, and other software.

Note: The IRIX 6.5 Applications CD, February 2000, is a companion to IRIX 6.5.7. This CD contains the IRIX Desktop and various desktop applications. Application upgrades shipped with the IRIX release are either full images or overlays. Full images and base versions of overlays can be found on the Applications CD, whereas updates to overlays are found on the IRIX 6.5.7 Overlays CD, February 2000. To install the new versions of overlay applications you must install IRIX 6.5.7.

Full Images vs.
Overlays
Full Images

  • InPerson Desktop Conferencing
  • PeoplePages - The Indigo Magic Phonebook
  • Access X
  • Adobe® Acrobat Reader
  • IRIS® Annotator
  • Appletalk Client
  • Color Management
  • CosmoCreate and Cosmo Player
  • Customer Link Client Software
  • Graphics Demonstration Programs
  • Customer Support Services Base Software
  • Internet Gateway Execution Environment
  • Gradient Technologies, iFOR/LS (ARK) and (CRK)
  • IRIS® InSight Developer
  • IRIS® InSight Online Glossary
  • Java Development Environment
  • Java Execution Environment
  • Runtime Plug-in for Irix, Java Edition
  • Macromedia Movie Player
  • Nedit GUI style editor
  • Netscape® Communicator
  • Netscape® Navigator
  • Netscape® FastTrack Server
  • Outbox Personal Web Site
  • Adobe® Photoshop Performance Package
  • IRIS® Showcase
  • SiteMgr - WWW Content Administration
  • VLAN software 1.0 for IRIX®
  • WebSetup
  • 3D File Translators These Full Images have been revised for the IRIX 6.5 Applications CD, February 2000:
    • Access X
    • Array Services
    • CosmoPlayer
    • IRIS® InSight Developer
    • Netscape® and Netscape® Navigator
    These Full Images have been removed from the IRIX 6.5 Applications CD, February 2000:
    • SGIMeeting
    • SGIMeeting Extensions

    SGIMeeting and SGIMeeting Extensions are both now licensed products and are no longer available on the Applications CD. More information on this product can be found at http://www.sgi.com/software/sgimeeting/ and the latest version can be obtained from http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/ or contact your local SGI sales representative.

    Overlays

  • Customer Registration
  • IRIX® Interactive Desktop
  • IRIX® Interactive Desktop Tools
  • Display PostScript/X
  • IRIS® InSight Dynaweb Server
  • ImageVision Tools
  • Impressario(TM)Printing Tools
  • IRIS® InSight Viewer
  • IRIS® InSight Online Glossary
  • License Tools
  • Fulltext Indexing and Search Environment
  • Interactive Desktop Administration
  • Desktop System Monitor
  • WebViewer Library Execution only Enviroment

    These Overlays have been revised for the IRIX 6.5 Overlay CD, February 2000:

    • IRIS® InSight Dynaweb Server
    • IRIS® InSight Viewer
    • IRIS® InSight Developer (is now a Full Image)
    • Webviewer
    • Customer Registration
    • Documentation Note: As an SGI customer you have access to all of SGI's product documentation online. To view a document please visit our Technical Publications Web page at http://techpubs.sgi.com.

    IRIX 6.5.7
    Advanced Server Environment

    IRIX 6.5.7
    Advanced Workstation Environment

    SGI is introducing complete, value-added solutions to servers and workstations with IRIX 6.5 Advanced Server Environment and IRIX 6.5 Advanced Workstation Environment. IRIX 6.5 ASE and AWE give you a complete operating environment, including interoperability tools, enterprise management software, and the maturity and performance of IRIX 6.5.

    ASE AWE Contents Location
    Maturity and Performance
    Y Y IRIX 6.5.7

    IRIX 6.5.7 (1 of 2) Installation Tools and Overlays CD

    IRIX 6.5.7 (2 of 2) Overlays CD
    Y Y XFS(TM) IRIX 6.5.7 (1 of 2) Installation Tools and Overlays CD
    TCO/Enterprise Management
    Y Y NFS(TM) NFS CD
    Y Y EnlightenDSM/Workgroup* EnlightenDSM/Workgroup CD
    Y Y HP-UX MIB (SNMP) HP-UX MIB (SNMP) CD
    Y - CA Unicenter TNG Framework CA Unicenter TNG Framework CD
    Interoperability
    Y Y Novell NetWare(TM) IRIX 6.5.7 Applications CD
    Y Y Xinet AppleTalk® IRIX 6.5.7 Applications CD
    Other Applications
    Y - DBA DBA CD

    * EnlightenDSM server license in ASE; client agent only in AWE.

    IRIX 6.5 Advanced Workstation Environment desktops are also available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and German.

    Over time, SGI will continue to deliver total solutions by adding to IRIX 6.5 Advanced Server Environment and Advanced Workstation Environment, allowing you to do more with your SGI machines.
    Licenses for IRIX Applications To see what licenses you have, open License Manager. If you have a question about which licenses you may be entitled to, send an e-mail to license@sgi.com, put "help" in the subject line, and your serial number and a description of the question in the body of the message. In the U.S. or Canada you can call SGI support at 1(800)800-4SGI.
    Third-Party Applications Support Some of the products shipped are third-party applications. To find out how to get support for these products, refer to the Third-Party Applications Support page.

    The IRIX 6.5 Applications

    You can find the icons for these desktop tools in the Icon Catalog (click on the Find menu on the Toolchest, and select the page you want). Unless otherwise noted, you can reinstall these products from the IRIX Overlays CD and IRIX Applications CD.

    Web Tools

    Netscape® Communicator

    Browse the World Wide Web. Netscape® Communicator is available on the IRIX Applications CD, and comes preinstalled on most systems from SGI. Netscape® Communicator includes the following:

    • Navigator, a browser
    • Messenger, a mail/news client
    • Composer, an HTML authoring tool
    and more and is integrated into the SGI IRIX Interactive Desktop. SGI also ships a variety of plug-ins to Navigator. You can find Navigator on the WebTools page of the Icon Catalog, or launch Navigator from the Internet menu item "Open Web Browser" on the Toolchest.
    Netscape® Navigator Netscape® Lite. If you prefer to save disk space and memory and only want to use the Web browser, and not the Netscape® mail, news, or HTML editor, you can install the Netscape® Navigator Client product from the Applications CD in the "extras" directory. This will uninstall the Netscape® Communicator software. Netscape®
    Netscape® Messenger Netscape® Messenger is built in to Communicator. Netscape® Messenger is the default mail program for SGI. (This link only works if you have already installed Netscape® Communicator 4.05 or higher). Using Netscape® Messenger makes it easy to send and receive URLs- they automatically appear as highlighted links in your messages. Just click on the link to view the page! You can also mail references to Web sites with a single command. Launch Mail from the Communicator Menu menu within Netscape®.
    Cosmo Player Browse VRML 3D Worlds. SGI ships Cosmo Player with all systems as a plug-in to Netscape®. Cosmo Player brings the power and excitement of 3D graphics to the World Wide Web. As part of the WebFORCE® software environment from SGI, Cosmo Player advances the revolution started by text-based multimedia Web browsers. With point-and-click simplicity, you can now fly through virtual cities or resorts, visualize stock market trends in 3D, or inspect 3D models of products in online catalogs. Cosmo Player enables natural, intuitive navigation of information on the Internet. Now, text, images, video, audio, and even other 3D models can be accessed directly from a 3D environment, making information access as easy as browsing in a bookstore. CosmoPlayer
    Cosmo Create Author your own HTML Web pages. Cosmo Create is a powerful HTML editor that allows anyone to quickly and easily create cross-platform, media-rich Web pages. It replaces WebMagic (our previous HTML editor) and is now available on the Applications CD without the need for a purchased license. CosmoCreate provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) user interface that automatically generates HTML. Incorporating text, images, video, and audio is as simple as drag and drop, enabling you to focus on content instead of worrying about HTML tags. Cosmo Create includes a set of predefined templates for the quick creation of standard home pages. You can find the Cosmo Create icon on the WebTools page of the Icon Catalog.
    OutBox Personal Web Site

    Publish information to your intranet. With the OutBox Personal Web Site, you can make files on your system easily available to co-workers, regardless of the computing platform they are using. OutBox creates default personal home pages for all users and a system home page, which you can use as-is or modify as needed.

    Outbox uses the Netscape® FastTrack Server, which is preinstalled on most systems.    		 OutBox
    Netscape® FastTrack Personal Server/Netscape® Admin Server

    Netscape® FastTrack Personal Server. Serving up Web pages has never been so easy! SGI preinstalls and configures the Netscape® FastTrack personal server on all Silicon Graphics® O2® systems. The server automatically turns on when you power on your system. All you need to do to publish your files on the Web is put them in the public_html folder you will find in your home directory (for example, /usr/people/bob/public_html). The FastTrack Personal server is also configured to work with OutBox (see above).

    FastTrack server is an easy-to-use, powerful Web server for creating and managing Web sites. It includes all the standard Netscape® features like security (SSL), server-side Java (TM), JavaScript, high-performance NS-API, and traffic logging. FastTrack is an ideal solution for publishing traditional intranet and Internet documents as well as developing and deploying live network-centric and media-rich applications.     		FastTrack
    Site Manager

    Manage the content on your growing site easily. When your site has anywhere from 25 to 25,000 or more pages and you want revision control with an easy-to-use interface, use Site Manager. Site Manager gives you link and HTML validation, a cool 3D hyperbolic view of your links, and usage statistics from the server traffic logs. Site Manager is perfect for a collaborative authoring team or any site that wants more control and metadata.

    The Site Manager Server should be configured by someone knowledgable about Web servers. See the Site Manager release notes for more details. Site Manager works well with Netscape® FastTrack Server. You can find the icon for Site Manager on the WebTools page of the Icon Catalog.    		 Site Manager
    WebJumper Jump easily to your favorite hotspots on the Web. Web Jumper allows you to save URLs as desktop icons and then double-click the icon to view the page. Organizing the icons on your desktop becomes easy. The icon for Web Jumper is on the Web Tools page of the Icon Catalog. WebJumper

    Desktop Productivity Tools

    For more detals on SGI's desktop see the desktop Webpage.
    Adobe® Acrobat Reader(TM) Adobe® Acrobat Reader(TM) is your window into the world of documents digitally published in the Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). With Adobe's rich set of PDF authoring tools and PDF readers available at no cost for PC, MAC® and UNIX® platforms, sharing information using PDF is a welcome solution for publishing information in a heterogeneous networked computing environment, such as the World Wide Web. PDF allows documents to be presented in their original form, retaining the font, color, graphic, and page layout information as the author intended. The icon is on the Applications page of the Icon Catalog. Acrobat
    Desktop Media Tools Capture your ideas in any medium. Desktop MediaTools give you the option to choose the most effective way to capture and communicate an idea. The Media Tools support creation and editing of standard file format sounds, movies, images and 3D objects. Once you have captured your ideas, the IRIX Interactive Desktop supports you in sharing information with your colleagues in the most effective way. All of these tools are on the Media Tools page of the Icon Catalog Media Convert
    ImageVision(TM) Tools

    ImageVision Tools are a set of image generation and manipulation utilities, including:

    • Tools for viewing, altering, and enhancing images
    • A tool for converting image files to other formats
    • A tool for reading information about the image from the file
    • A tool for enumerating the supported file formats
    • A very flexible command line tool for doing batch or interactive image processing sessions
    You can find icons for these tools on the Media Tools page of the Icon Catalog.
    Impressario(TM)

    Impressario(TM)is an enhanced printing and scanning environment for SGI workstations. Impressario consists of several products:

    • Impressario(TM) Base: File conversion tools, fonts, and other printing utilities for print servers
    • Impressario (TM) Developer's Kit: Tools for developing Impressario (TM) compliant printer and scanner drivers
    • Impressario (TM)Host RIP Printers: Drivers for selected printers that do not have built-in PostScript (requires Impressario(TM) PostScript Renderer)
    • Impressario (TM) PostScript Renderer: Requires a license. Optional Adobe® PostScript renderer
    • Impressario (TM) Print Server: Drivers for selected printers that have built-in PostScript (Impressario PostScript Renderer not required)
    • Impressario (TM) Scanner Software: Drivers for HP ScanJets, Ricoh FS2, and Sharp JX scanners
    		Impressario
    Impressario(TM) scanning tools allow you to easily capture images from a scanner, file, or monitor. The Scanner Manager tool provides a simple interface for installing and configuring scanners. Scanner
    Impressario(TM) Printer Drivers support the IRIX Desktop architecture, allowing you to use the IRIX Printer Manager to configure and manage Impressario printers. Selected printers are supported: Apple® LaserWriter, Epson Stylus, Lexmark Optra, HP LaserJet, HP DeskJet, and HP DesignJet. The HP and Epson drivers require the Impressario optional Adobe® Level II PostScript interpreter. Printer
    InPerson (TM)

    Discuss interactively, regardless of location. Through InPerson desktop conferencing, you can conduct online meetings that include movies, images, interactive 3D models, audio, and video. The icon is on the Applications page of the Icon Catalog.

    PeoplePages, the Indigo Magic Phonebook, is a companion product to InPerson that is also shipped with your system.

    		 Inperson
    InfoSearch Search all documentation formats. InfoSearch allows users to search and browse virtually all SGI documentation from a single Web interface: online books, help cards, man pages, and release notes. You can launch InfoSearch from the Help menu on the Toolchest. Some users will prefer InfoSearch's consistent Web interface; others prefer InSight's richer functionality. InfoSearch can be found online in the TechPubs Library. TechPubs
    IRIS InSight(TM)

    IRIS InSight(TM) includes Viewer, SGIHelp viewer, and the Online Glossary. IRIS InSight (TM) Viewer lets you easily search and browse SGI online documents and support libraries. With this product, you can view the glossary of terms, the online Help, the online versions of the standard end-user documentation set, and more.

    Launch InSight by selecting Help...Online Books from the Toolchest. The InSight Glossary is a list of terms and definitions used in the various InSight manuals. The glossary can be opened, searched, and viewed like any other InSight document. However, it is primarily a hyperlinked resource for other InSight manuals that do not have back-of-book glossaries. Other desktop applications rely on this product for the SGIHelp viewer.

    		 Insight
    IRIS InSight DynaWeb IRIS InSight DynaWeb, a product of INSO Corporation, is a CGI (Computer Gateway Interface) Web server application for users who prefer to search and view online manuals via a Web browser. IRIS InSight DynaWeb server automatically converts SGML files, the same files used by IRIS InSight, to HTML dynamically. InfoSearch relies on this product. DynaWeb
    NEdit NEdit is a standard graphical user interface (GUI) text editor for programs and plain text files. If you've used Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows® based text editors, you'll find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. Nedit
    Showcase(TM) Deliver compelling presentations. IRIX includes Showcase, the interactive, multimedia, presentation creation tool. Integrate text, images, and video to create dynamic presentations. The icon is on the Applications page of the Icon Catalog. Showcase

    Other Software
    AccessX

    The SGI AccessX graphical interface allows movement-impaired users to set and activate the following five special keyboard features:

    • MouseKeys turns the user's keyboard number pad into a pointer controller, enabling the user to move the pointer without the mouse.
    • BounceKeys makes the keyboard ignore spurious extra presses of a key.
    • StickyKeys causes modifier keys such as Shift, Ctrl, and Alt to latch and affect the next key pressed, such that modifier keys and other keys may be pressed in sequence instead of simultaneously.
    • SlowKeys makes the keyboard ignore spurious presses of other keys on the way to a target key.
    • RepeatKeys lets the user toggle whether held keys are acknowledged repeatedly or just once. The SGI AccessX status window updates in real time to give feedback whenever the user presses, latches (holds down), and releases the mouse button and modifier keys.
    Annotator(TM) IRIS Annotator (TM) is a multimedia application expressly designed for sharing ideas and information about 3D models. IRIS Annotator lets you annotate 3D models using the full complement of SGI Digital Media tools, then electronically mail the annotated models to others for review. IRIS Annotator is the ideal collaboration tool for any discipline producing 3D data, including engineering, manufacturing, architecture, life sciences, and geosciences. License required. Annotator
    Adobe® Photoshop Performance Package

    This package contains Photoshop plug-ins that accelerate many of Photoshop's image processing functions. Plug-ins are software modules (DSOs under UNIX) with which Photoshop can dynamically link to provide new features or in this case override built-in functions. The plug-in version of these functions uses your system's image processing hardware to help perform the required operations many times faster than the main CPU can. If you purchase Photoshop, install this product and launch Photoshop using the photoshop_sgi icon, available on the Applications page of the Icon Catalog, to take advantage of these enhancements. License Required.

    In the U.S. or Canada call SGI support for questions about Photoshop Licenses at 1(800)800-4SGI or see SGI Software Licensing.    		 Photoshop
    Array Services The array services are a set of kernel services and tools that simplify the management of jobs and systems in an array of SGI systems.
    Color Management The Color Management software contains libraries (supplied as DSOs), utility programs to apply color corrections (cocostiff(1), cocojpeg(1), cocogif(1), etc.), and International Color Consortium (ICC) color profiles for selected devices. Other applications rely on this product.
    Customer Support Services

    Includes:

    • Customer Support Base Software
    • Customer Link Client Software
    • Customer Registration
    • Customer Welcome (the HTML pages you're currently reading)
    You can find the icons for these tools on the Support page and the WhatsNew page in the Icon Catalog.    		 Register Custlink
    Demonstration Programs Cool demos to show off your system to your friends! You can launch them from the Demos page of the Icon Catalog. Demos
    Desktop System Monitor System Monitor is an error reporting system for the IRIX Interactive Desktop. You can find an icon for it on the Support Tools page of the Icon Catalog. Sysmon
    Display PostScript PostScript is an interpretive programming language with graphics capabilities for printing or displaying pages of text, two-dimensional graphical shapes, and sampled images. Display PostScript/X (DPS/X) is a PostScript interpreter that renders on the screen. DPS/X is based on Level 2 PostScript language; the SGI version of DPS/X is an extension of its X/Window System. The first time you run an application that uses DPS/X, the extension is loaded dynamically into the X server. DPS/X applications are X applications as well and are run in much the same way.
    FDDIVisualizer FDDIVisualizer is a tool for visualizing FDDI network traffic and bottlenecks.
    Isogon, iFOR/LS 4.0 There are two licensing products on the Applications CD from Isogon Technologies, a client run-time kit (CRK) and an administrative run-time kit (ARK). Only customers running applications licensed with iforcrk (such as CATIA) need to install the client, containing utilities to determine the host ID and to test access to the license server. Hosts running an iForLS license server should install the administrative run time, which contains licensing servers as well as the utilities in iforcrk.
    IndigoMagic MediaWarehouse Media Warehouse provides viewers for ASCII text, HTML, 3D models (Inventor(TM) and VRML), audio (AIFF, AIFC, NeXT/AU, and WAV formats), movies (SGI Movie, MPEG, and QuickTime® formats), IL image (see imgformats(1)), and X image (XPM and XBM) data types. Several desktop products rely on this product.
    License Tools The License Tools support the installation and management of software licenses and can be run interactively or automatically. This product should be installed on systems running licensed applications (it is preinstalled on most SGI systems). You can launch this tool from the System menu on the Toolchest. License
    Performer

    IRIS Performer provides a powerful and extensible programming interface (with ANSI C and C++ bindings) for creating real-time visual simulation and other interactive graphics applications. IRIS Performer 2.0 supports both IRIS GL and the industry-standard OpenGL(TM) graphics library; these libraries combine with the IRIX operating system and REACT(TM) extensions to form the foundation of a powerful suite of tools and features for creating real-time visual simulation applications on SGI systems.

    Performer is now located on the IRIX 6.5.7 Overlays CDs.
    Serial Video LAN Control Panel and Tools The VLAN 232 package provides an interface between SGI workstations and Videomedia V-LAN transmitters using RS-232 connections.
    WebViewer A Viewkit HTML viewing component. Other desktop products rely on this product. Available on the base IRIX CD for SGI(TM) Origin (TM) 200 and SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 2000, the Silicon Graphics® Onyx2, and the Silicon Graphics® Octane®.