[27148] in Athena Bugs
Re: autocad on suns?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Nov 26 14:22:49 2007
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From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>What happened to Autocad on Suns?
As I replied in the RT case with the same question:
>What happened to Autocad on Suns?
It died of bit rot after some Athena patch release during the last year;
I'm not sure exactly when. It won't run any more:
FATAL ERROR: Segmentation violation
when a launch is attempted. The binaries are over 14 years old now. There's
really little more that can be said than what's in the message.
>I don't recall seeing any mail to software-announce.
>Did I miss it?
I didn't send any as the number of users has been vanishingly small lately,
and the message explains the situation.
>I know that I have code that depends on being able to run Autocad
>on Athena, and I don't know where else I'd be able to run it
>(are there other options for AutoLISP)??
I'm really sorry, but I have no means of fixing it, and I don't know of any
substitute. You might want to look at Qcad (on Athena) but I'm not sure that
will do the job.
If you can find something free/Open Source that will, I can try to install
if for you (but I can't make any promises if there are problems or
complications).
Alex
