[7876] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xfig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Sun Nov 18 20:50:32 2001
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:50:05 +0000 ( )
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
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To: ajfox@MIT.EDU
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Hi,
I've written such a wrapper script, and the problem should go away when
the sipb locker is released tonight.
--Chris, for the SIPB
On 18 Nov, Abby Fox wrote:
>>From bugs[20007]:
>
> Users trying to run xfig through the panel menus are unable to
> export files.
>
> This is because the menus use athrun to launch locker software, and xfig
> as currently installed can't locate fig2dev without the sipb bin dir in
> the path.
>
> Can you reconfigure xfig to work under athrun? (The immediate
> workaround for the menus would be to switch to an xfig wrapper script
> that frobs the path, but putting that into the menu config area rather
> than the sipb locker seems wrong.)
>
> --Abby
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