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Cyberleaf from Interleaf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu May 4 14:13:00 1995
To: facdev@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, lisanti@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, shanec@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU,
ccount@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 14:12:08 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Feel free to forward to other interested parties:
I have installed the Cyberleaf Web page authoring tool on Athena. It is
currently available for Suns and RS/6000s. To start it on these platforms do:
add cyberleaf; cyberleaf
at the Athena prompt. It will take a long time to start the first time you
run it because it needs to create a local utility directory to hold working
files. Later startups will be a lot faster.
This directory will be named cyberleaf and will always be created in your home
directory. You can move it elsewhere later (using UNIX mv) and if you do
you will need to start cyberleaf this way:
cyberleaf -desktop /mit/otherdir/cyberleaf
You will need to have 1-2 meg of free disk space (plus space for the various
Web page components). If you are at or near quota, you will get various
strange error messages about missing LISP files that may seem confusing-
if you restart after making enough free disk space these should go away.
There is online help but I'm not sure if you will be able to figure out
what to do without help from the manual (using Cyberleaf is tricky, and
there are many not too obvious steps to do). There is a short manual called
Getting Started with Cyberleaf (I have one copy) that takes you through
all the steps involved. We can order more from UMass. Boston ($15 list,
with volume discounts).
I have set it up to launch Netscape as a viewer automatically (there is
a command within Cyberleaf that will show a final page within an actual
Web browser).
I ran into a couple of minor additional glitches: the text entry
dialog boxes may be slightly buggy: on a number of instances where I
was entering a directory path in the Directory box of the Add Files to
Web window, I got error messages about "Directory not found";
especially when the path was long and scrolled the box; in scrolling
back left to the beginning of the path, I noted that a number of
characters near the beginning had been repeated twice; deleting these
with the Backspace key and hitting Return again usually cleared things
up. I also noted that sometimes using "/mit..." paths didn't seem to
work but "/afs..." paths did- this semmed intermittent because sometimes
it would work.
Printing doesn't work- Cyberleaf wants to use the lp print spooler which
we don't have enabled. There is a simple workaround- you can output to
a PostScript file and lpr that from the UNIX prompt.
The bugs have been reported and I will make fixes if/when I can.
If you run into other problems it's probably best to report then to
me for now.
Alex
