[13426] in SIPB bug reports
Re: errors in xfig help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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To: Christina C Chestnut <cchestnu@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: errors in xfig help
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Hello,
Thank you for the bug report. You are correct, xfig's
configuration was calling the wrong programs for viewing
documentation. I've updated the situation, and the help
menu items should start working tomorrow.
For bug-sipb: I edited sipb/src/xfig-3.2.2/Fig.ad, and installed
the result into sipb/share/X11/app-defaults. Both htmlview and
athrun have been in the release since at least Athena 9.0,
and the config file now uses those helpers to launch viewers.
-Jacob Morzinski
MIT SIPB
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Christina C Chestnut wrote:
> When I was trying to access the help menu in xfig, the two options only
> produced errors. The one that was HTML tried to run netscape but failed,
> and the one that was a PDF only worked if I manually added acro and ran
> acroread myself.
