[10260] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4G: xditview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Sat Feb 6 13:07:06 1993
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 13:07:01 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
System name: w20-575-58
Type and version: KN02ca 7.4G
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
Use xditview to display a ditroff'ed document. (Actually,
it was produced by groff, but the resultant output should be more or
less compatible.)
What's wrong:
It dumped core. I am not going to provide a coredump, because
it's unimportant; there's no way xditview could possibly work, since the
appropriate files in /usr/lib/font are not installed (these would be
devX75 and devX100). This is, of course, not a major tragedy, since
ditroff itself is not installed---which substantially decreases the
probability that ditroff files will be encountered in the first place.
What should have happened:
Easy fix. Three things that can be done:
1) Remove xditview from the packs. (Trivial, and
will probably go unnoticed.)
2) Install the font description files, so that
someone who just happens to have ditroff output
can view it. This is also very easy, since
the only reason they aren't there now is that
the Imakefile in the source tree does not
install those files for you when you do
a `make install'.
3) Do 2), plus install ditroff itself, just to
be consistent. I don't know whether that would
be hard or not. Perhaps on ULTRIX it's just
a matter of loading in the appropriate modules.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
xditview(1)
