[25666] in Athena Bugs
psnup regressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed May 26 23:57:26 2004
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200405270357.i4R3vGdO002255@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: sly@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
psnup has regressed (this happened some time ago).
The minor annoyance I had previously noticed but
not complained about was that it no longer accepts
psnup -n2
and requires
psnup -n 2
But tonight, Angie discovered she could not force a 2x3
array of pages, rather than a 3x2 (modulo rotation, etc.).
Previously you could specify
psnup -n 3x2
etc.
A temporary workaround was to binary patch the 9.0 srvd binary
to find its support files outside of /usr/athena/share/
(i.e. in /tmp) and then use it. But this is unfortunate.
The new version of psnup is less functional than the old, and
not compatible. Can we do something about this?
--jhawk
