[18426] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.15: tecplot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed Oct 18 11:46:51 2000
Message-Id: <200010181546.LAA12410@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:46:46 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.15 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
get help from inside tecplot
What's wrong:
No help is opened, and the xterm that I'm running tecplot in
says that I should check to make sure HHHOME is defined.
What should have happened:
It should have opened hyperhelp.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I think HHHOME should be being set to
/mit/tecplot_v8.00/distrib/help. The wrapper script maybe
looks like it's trying to do that but not doing the right
thing. Setting it before runnign tecplot doesn't help,
because the wrapper I think is maybe redefining it.
If I go into /mit/tecplot_v8.00/distrib/help/bin.sun4x_56 I
can run hyperhelp manually and open the help files, so it does
work, it's just not being called correctly.
Also I note that starting up tecplot in a directory I don't
have write permissions in (i.e. /mit/tecplot) gives an error
message saying that it can't write to a temp file; this may be
another place that needs an environment variable set in the
wrapper that isn't being.
