[1712] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 4.0 upgrade: tkman broken / pppd "upgrade" / gpm uninstall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Tue Oct 29 19:42:25 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:26:08 PST."
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:43:35 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Bill Kerr wrote:
>
> > when i try and run tkman i get the follwoing error:
> > [root@getontheb bin]# tkman
> > can't read "0": no such variable
> > while executing
> > "exec /usr/bin/wish $0..."
> > (file "/usr/bin/tkman" line 4)
> >
> > I tried taking out the $0 and also running tkman on a man page "tkman
> > bash" but neither worked. Does anyone have a fix for this?
>
> I had the same problem with tkman under 4.0. I ended up changing the
> first few lines of /usr/bin/tkman as follows:
>
> ----- original -------------
> #! /bin/csh -f
> # the next line restarts using wish \\
> exec /usr/bin/wish $0 $*
> set manx(version) 1.7.3
>
> ----- replaced with -------------
> #! /usr/bin/wish
> set manx(version) 1.7.3
> set manx(newuser) ""
>
> ---------------------------
> As you can see, the original is a csh script in which csh executes only
> one line, exec'ing /usr/bin/wish on the same file. The new version of
> wish (apparently) tries to execute the 'exec' line as well, and chokes.
> My replacement eliminates the csh middleman, and seems to work (at least
> with no command line args, which I haven't tested).
>
FYI: the line
> # the next line restarts using wish \\
> exec /usr/bin/wish $0 $*
is suppose to work. See "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk", by Brent B.
Welch, page 12.
This is either a bug in wish or there is a space after those "\\" characters.
Can someone check?
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