[17939] in Athena Bugs
Re: dash: disabling items on linux-athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jun 27 23:17:50 2000
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006280317.XAA17195@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17646] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
In linux-testers [285] Abby says this has been fixed. I'm closing the
report.
Jonathon
> This should have occurred to me before: I was trying to dim some dash
> items for linux (like frame), but it doesn't listen to -linux in the
> menu file. From the dash man page, MENU FORMAT section:
>
> +-sgi
> +-sun4
> +-decmips
> +-rsaix
> +-rt
> +-vax
> Used with an item entry, specifies that this item
> is or is not available specifically on specified
> workstation platforms. Default is + for all plat-
> forms. If an item is specified as not available
> for the platform on which dash is running, it will
> appear dimmed on the screen.
>
> Is the list hard-coded, or is machtype not the right string to use?
