[18231] in Athena Bugs
Re: xplay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Wed Sep 6 18:13:22 2000
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:13:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: golem@MIT.EDU
To: tbelton@MIT.EDU
cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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Yeah, actually this came up for me because I was using xplay as a
Netscape helper; note that netscape is now locally installed in
/usr/athena/bin under Solaris in 8.4.
Thanks for making the change.
--Chris
On 6 Sep, t. belton wrote:
> We assume that xplay is only being run as a Netscape helper, which means
> that the paths etc are correctly set by the caller environment. However,
> I'll be happy to put an explicit path on xplay_static today. It'll show up
> tomorrow, after propagation.
>
> Xplay is only supported for Solaris. As I say, we consider it primarily a
> Netscape helper, and SGIs have their own program which performs an
> equivalent function.
>
> -Todd Belton
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Chris Laas wrote:
>
>> xplay in infoagents (which appears to only be there for solaris) is a
>> script containing the text
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:}/usr/dt/lib
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> exec xplay_static "$@"
>>
>> This fails miserably if infoagents is not in the executing shell's path
>> (as, for example, if xplay is invoked as /mit/infoagents/bin/xplay).
>> xplay_static should probably be changed to
>> /mit/infoagents/bin/xplay_static or somesuch.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> --
>> Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.
>> -- Carl Sagan
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>> Chris Laas: KB1DEM \ golem@mit.edu (617)225-6522 \ EC, Hayden 507, MIT
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