[1608] in Athena Bugs
A bug with ptroff <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (fkchang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 6 13:47:43 1989
From: <fkchang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 89 13:47:01 EST
Program with which you had the problem:
ptroff
Name of person who discovered the bug: Alan Nash
Their MIT phone number: ?
Their MIT address: Sigma Chi
Their Athena Login ID:asgnash
Name of consultant reporting bug:fkchang/ Forrest Chang
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
ptroff can't access a directory it needs for font widths.
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
ptroff gives troff the following option:
(among other options)
troff -F${psfontlib}/ftXX
this translates to
troff -F/usr/athena/lib/ps/troff.font/ftXX/
but /usr/athena/lib/ps/troff.font/ftXX/ doesn't exist,
in particular ftXX directory doesn't exist. Therefore troff can't
find the fontwidths and barfs.
This happened on vaxen, perhaps the rt troff.font directory is properly
configured.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
athena% ptroff a_troff_file
It will return
troff: can't open tables for /usr/athena/lib/ps/troff.font/ftXX/dev480/DESC.out
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Put the directory ftXX and the proper subdirs in /usr/athena/lib/ps/troff.font
and all should be happy.
