[1725] in SIPB bug reports
more on idraw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 4 16:42:57 1991
From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 16:42:28 -0500
To: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Steve Dyer's message of Mon, 4 Mar 91 14:32:25 -0500 <9103041932.AA23677@arktouros.MIT.EDU>
>>
>> From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
>>
>> Some folks are trying to use 'idraw' on a VAX Ultrix machine
>> in Bldg 20 by NFS mounting the SIPB locker. Things mostly seem to work
>> but the 'cut/copy/paste' functions don't seem to be activated.
>> That is, I can't seem to get things working on the Ultrix machine
>> whereas I can do the same functions perfectly on Athena machines.
>> I thought it might be a good idea to try to link a new binary
>> specifically for VAX Ultrix. Are the *.o files for the VAX around
>> anywhere? Alternately, could this be an X11 revision mismatch?
>> The Ultrix 3.1 machine is running DECwindows, which is prob r3
>> or even more back-level.
>>
>> By the way, my question about an endlessly-looping 'idraw' on
>> the RT concerned moving the SIPB idraw binary to a machine
>> running stock AOS4.3, and not the Athena release. Not sure
>> what the diffs would be; maybe an occasional syscall mismatch,
>> but I'm not sure. Are the RT object files still around so I
>> can try linking a new binary against my libc and -lX* files?
>> I'd hate to have to get C++ and all the other stuff running
>> on either platform (RT or VAX Ultrix 3.1) just to get a working
>> idraw.
>>
>> Thanks for any light you can shed.
>>
>> /Steve
>>
I'm mystified why you sent this to me --- I know very little about
idraw (other than as a user).
When you say cut/copy/paste don't work, what goes wrong? Are the menu
choices disabled? I have used idraw on a pmax running Ultrix many
times and had no problems with cut/copy/paste.
I could not find the objects used to build idraw. The source is in
the interviews locker; it seems to me that it'd be pretty easy for you
to log into an athena machine, copy the source to bitbucket, compile
it there, NFS-mount bitbucket from your non-athena machines and do the
final link with whatever libraries you like.
I have cc'ed this message to bug-sipb in case anyone else has
experienced these problems, can determine if they are indeed bugs, or
has better ideas of how to go about fixing them.
Kenneth J. Duda
MIT Network Services
Member, Student Information Processing Board
<kkkken@athena.mit.edu>
