[12355] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.7E: A bug with dash in release 7.7 on IBM RS/6ks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Chuang, MIT '92)
Wed Aug 10 01:02:05 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 01:01:58 EDT
From: "William Chuang, MIT '92" <wchuang@MIT.EDU>
System name: bombardier
Type and version: POWER 7.7E
Display type: POWER_Gt1
What were you trying to do?
Execute programs from dash.
What's wrong:
Any entry in the default /usr/athena/lib/Dash.menus
which is of the form:
add("locker"),exec("progname");
fails to work. My guess is that the add() callback
isn't correctly extending dash's path. Note that
these commands work perfectly fine from the command
line, including from a completely vanilla account.
Lines of the type:
attach("locker"),exec("/mit/locker/%M/progname");
work correctly. There are a few of this type in the
default Dash.menus file, interspersed among the more
numerous aforementioned add()'s.
What should have happened:
The programs should have executed. (Gee, shouldn't
this question be changed?)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
/afs/dev/project/release/source/src/athena/bin/dash/src/dash/dash.c
(whew! Time for a shorter path??? BTW, I have some patches to
the Jet library which will allow the scrollbars to act as default
Jet, or Motif or Andrew scrollbars; they're resource dependent.
Want them?)
