[12771] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7I: On-Line Help for FrameMaker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry Tsai)
Thu Oct 20 17:43:44 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 17:43:36 EDT
From: Harry Tsai <hftsai@MIT.EDU>
System name: m16-034-27
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7I
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Read "FrameMaker on Athena (DRAFT)" in OLH.
(I'm not sure how many paths there are to it; but I was using
Text Processing/FrameMaker.../FrameMaker on Athena (DRAFT) )
What's wrong:
I got the following message in the terminal from which I started OLH.
~% help&
[1] 2555
~% usage: ps [ -edalfcj ] [ -t termlist ]
[ -u uidlist ] [ -p proclist ] [ -g grplist ] [ -s sidlist ]
You must have portmapper running to use FrameMaker.
Please start one by becoming root:
athena% cd /
athena% su
Password: mrroot
and typing
athena# /etc/portmap
athena# exit
athena% cd
I followed the instructions, and found that /etc/portmap doesn't exist
on this machine. Furthermore, I found that FrameMaker runs just fine,
running add frame;maker from my shell did the right thing. It seems that
the differences in ps on the Suns is just causing the OLH invocation to fail.
What should have happened:
1) OLH (or whatever is trying to invoke FrameMaker) should be able
to deal with the version of ps on the Suns.
2) The error message should identify the actual problem and should not
contain a reference to a file which does not exist on this machine.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
none
