[6392] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xdvi disapeared?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Tue Jun 24 21:21:51 1997
To: avdw@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:59:56 EDT."
<9706250059.AA14087@lattice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:21:42 EDT
From: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Ah, I see... so you have access to the `normal' athena xdvi, but you
need to use the SIPB one for some reason? Ok, that's more clear.
The plan was that all of the [La]Tex stuff would move out of the sipb
locker, since Athena started supporting it a few years back, and that
we'd put the new, more bleeding-edge stuff in a locker named
`newtex'. Unfortunately, the newtex people got busy with other stuff
and don't have xdvi and/or dvips installed yet. We'll put them in the
new sipb locker, at least until we reach a better decision about what
we want to do.
chad
> Message-Id: <9706250059.AA14087@lattice.MIT.EDU>
> To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: xdvi disapeared?
> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:41:45 EDT."
> <199706250041.UAA11731@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:59:56 EDT
>
> Hi,
>
> >> I've noticed that the xdvi program disapeared from your locker.
> >> I understand you have been making updates.
> >> Could you make the old version available anyways?
> >
> >We've just noticed that updating the locker left a few platforms
> >without access to xdvi. As far as we know, however, the only
> >platforms thus affected are Linux and NetBSD, which often have xdvi
> >(and dvips, another essential piece of actually using [La]TeX)
> >installed locally. Are you using one of these platforms?
> >
> >We're going to remedy the situation ASAP, but for now you could
> >consider running the xdvi binaries out of the appropriate subdir of
> >/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-old (for example:
> >
> > athena% /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-old/inbsdbin/xdvi foo.dvi &
> >
> >Seems to work for my tests.
> >
> >Sorry about the trouble, and please get back to me and let me know
> >what platform you're using as soon as it is convenient.
>
> The machine I'm using is a sparc classic. It is a private
> athena station. Here is a transcript of what I do:
>
> athena% add -f sipb
> athena% where xdvi
> /usr/athena/bin/xdvi
> athena% echo $PATH
> /mit/sipb/arch/sun4m_54/bin: etc............
>
> so there is no xdvi in /mit/sipb/arch/sun4m_54/bin
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Axel van de Walle
