[6388] in Athena Bugs
Re: idraw bug report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Nov 12 18:08:23 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 18:08:12 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6193]
Forgot to CC this response to bugs...
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 17:54:14 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Sender: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
To: karl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6193]
Subject: idraw bug report
On October 9, you sent in the following bug report:
>System name: m11-113-10
>Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.1H
>Display type: megapel
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
>Just open a file in idraw.
>
>What's wrong:
>
>Well, first when idraw came up and I went to the file menu there were no
>files displayed in the pop up box even though I have a ton of them. So I
>typed one in anyway and it seemed to open (still no files displayed).
>When I tried to open another file by going back to the file menu
>the following message was displayed in the box you type the file name:
>
>getwd: read error in ../file.ps
>
>Then I tried typing the path name starting with ~/subdir (with the
>tilde) and I got on the xterm I started it on:
>
>Bad Boolean value '0' for 'AMS_NonViceHost' in configuration file; ignored
>Bad Boolean value '1' for 'AMS_NonAMSDelivery' in configuration file; ignored
>Bad Boolean value '0' for 'AMS_UseWP' in configuration file; ignored
>
>Then I tried typing the full path /mit/karl/... and it worked fine
>(still no display of the files in the pop up window however). Beats me
>whats going on.
First of all, idraw is a SIPB program, not a Project Athena program.
As such, it is supported by the SIPB, and not by Project Athena.
Therefore, bug reports about it should be sent to bug-sipb, not to
bugs. If you use sendbug to report a bug in a SIPB program, please
edit the header of the template that sendbug gives you so that the
message goes to bug-sipb rather than to bugs.
Second, it seems to me that most of the problems you describe are
due to the fact that either (a) your current working directory was not
your home directory, or (b) you lost read/write access to your home
directory because your mappings were somehow lost. In either case,
typing "cd" and then "attach karl" and then running idraw again should
solve the problem.
As for the funny "AMS" messages, that does, indeed, look like a bug
in idraw, and I will forward it on to bug-sipb.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
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