Re: [Closed REQ 6635]: oogl.m for PC

[Stuart Levy <slevy at geom.umn.edu>]

Not sure -- we don't have a Windows copy of Mathematica to try this on --
but this may work.

However, you should be able to say
  WriteChunk[ filename, graphicsobject ]

The data written to "filename" is intended to be read by math2oogl,
which should be included in teh Linux geomview distribution.  So you
could ship that file to the Linux box and try
  math2oogl filename > filename.oogl
  geomview filename.oogl

(or even
  math2oogl filename | togeomview -g
)

A cooler possibility (though one less likely to work):

WriteOOGL[] in OOGL.m invokes a small C program, math2oogl, to do the final
step in the translation (since it's much faster than it would be in
Mathematica code).  That program isn't present in Windows.
(Concevably you could fetch the geomview source distribution, try compiling it
as a DOS-mode program and put it somewhere on the DOS path as set in
\autoexec.bat.  If Mathematica for Windows accepts stuff like
OpenWrite[filehandle, "! math2oogl > filename"], then this has a chance.)

  Stuart Levy