[2783] in SIPB bug reports
problem printing from xfig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun May 3 22:42:23 1992
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 03 May 92 22:41:51 EDT
A user came to the SIPB office reporting a problem with printing from
xfig on the rt. She was using the version dated "May 3 16:34" (i.e.,
she had the sipb AFS cell copy of /mit/sipb attached). /mit/sipb/rtbin
was in the PATH of the xfig process.
The error on trying to print (via an xfig button press) was
Error during PRINT (unable to find fig2dev?)
and the console messages said, I think,
sh-4: not found
lpr: empty input file
Her file was not named sh-4, and sh-4 was not otherwise meaningful to
her.
I looked at /mit/sipbsrc/src/xfig/u_print.c and suggested
fig2dev -Lps -c -P -l xxx _filename_ | lpr
as a workaround. This appeared to work, although a small part of the
bottom of the drawing was cut off (this may have been the user's
fault).
Also, it might even be worthwhile to retain a sipb-cell copy of the
old version binaries (as xfig.old) for a week or so, in case there are
other problems, since a number of users are probably relying on xfig
for assignments due this coming week.
Matt
