This documentation is a revised edition of the
MICE documentation of
National Support Centre London
Revision by Jens Elkner (elkner@irb.cs.uni-magdeburg.de).

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User Guide to wbimport

wbimport is a tool that works together with wb, the shared whiteboard tool. Both were developed by Van Jacobson and Steven McCanne at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Wbimport was developed to manage a set of PostScript slides, scanned images or X window dumps imported into a wb session. It is a standard tool for MICE conferencing.

What does it do for you?

It is particularly useful if you use wb for giving seminars or lectures over a network. In such a situation, it can function as an OHP. Thus is important to realise that this is a tool for the person giving the seminar, not the people receiving it. It allows you to control the display of images on the whiteboard by selecting from a pre-loaded list which gives faster and simpler loading than using the Import PS function of wb.

All pages of the whiteboard are listed in the window, and this allows random access to any page loaded in wb.

How do you use wbimport?

Hints on use

The following suggestions are offered from experience of using the tool. If you have other hints, please make them available by sending to
mice-nsc-uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk

We would like to hear from you regarding your experiences in using this documentation. Comments of any kind and all technical enquiries should be addressed to:
mice-nsc-uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Acknowledgement

The development of wb, vat, and sd was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Scientific Computing Staff, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.