[24] in Athena Bugs
A bug with Macsyma (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John E Elsbree (Athena User Consultant))
Thu Mar 10 20:41:56 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: drafts@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 20:40:47 EST
From: John E Elsbree (Athena User Consultant) <elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem: Macsyma
Name of person who discovered the bug: John E Elsbree
Their MIT phone number: x3-1923
Their MIT address: 11-115
Their Athena Login ID: elsj
Name of consultant reporting bug: elsj
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Macsyma graphs in Tektronix windows don't seem to work anymore.
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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):
Pertinent software:
Standard VS2000 5.5T workstation.
Standard version of macsyma (/usr/athena/macsyma).
Bugfix version of xterm (/mit/fixes/vaxbin/xterm).
When a Macsyma graph is requested in a Tektronix window, Macsyma fills the
window with many asterisks, instead of drawing a graph.
The terminal type was set to "tek4014" before entering Macsyma.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
% attach fixes
% /mit/fixes/vaxbin/xterm -t &
[then, in the new xterm:]
% set noglob; eval `tset -s -Q - tek4014`
% macsyma
.
.
.
(c1) exp(-x^2-y^2)*x;
(d1) 2 2
- y - x
x %e
(d2) equalscale:false$
(d3) plot3d(d1,x,-2,2,y,-1.5,2.5);
.
.
(wait a long time)
.
.
[ * * * * * * Asterisks everywhere * * * * * ]
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Macsyma probably isn't recognizing the terminal type correctly.
