[3997] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: mwm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuang@------------------------------------------)
Wed Jan 17 20:03:30 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 20:02:58 EST
From: Chuang@---------------------------------------------William,
System name: test-3100
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 6.4R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Use mwm to run background processes and other f.exec'd items.
Such as:
@~/bitmaps/griffon f.exec "showbitmap ~/bitmaps/griffon -geometry +10+10&"
What's wrong:
Lots of things... first, mwm was UNABLE TO EXPAND ~ to /mit/wchuang.
That worked in the version of mwm that's not in the new release.
First, IT DISPLAYED THE BITMAP... but it couldn't exec the showbitmap.
So the problem is probably in the f.exec.
Also, suppose I have two commands on a single f.exec line, and the
commands are separated by a ";". If the first command has an "&" after
it, mwm returned an error to the console window saying:
SH: error in line 1
If you put the "&" after the second command, mwm just hung. No
keyboard/mouse input was read. However, the load kept on running. (!)
This required a reboot. (not a hard one of course)
What should have happened:
SEE ABOVE
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
