[8069] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 29 11:37:14 1991
From: ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 11:37:15 -0400
To: basch@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Richard Basch"'s message of Thu, 29 Aug 91 11:06:29 -0400 <9108291506.AA22083@tardis.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ckclark@MIT.EDU
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Aug 91 11:06:29 -0400, "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU> said:
Richard> However, if you couldn't read the initial screen
Richard> because it was garbled, I can see how this confusion
Richard> first started. I avoid the tty based client,
Richard> personally.
I should be more specific now that I've tried it again. When running
the tty based info client in an xterm, portions of the screen become an
unreadable mess. When I tried aixterm, it worked better, and I was able
to get some information out of it now that you've told me how to select
menus with CTRL-o. However, sometimes it gives warnings stating that it
can't bring up a graphic, which is the proper thing to do if it can't,
but some useful information is lost that way, especially if the
"graphic" is really just text which IBM, for some reason of dubious
merit, has decided needs to be displayed in PostScript. You say that
you avoid the tty-based client, and I can see why, but at least man
pages can be viewed without an X display. It is not possible for me to
bring up the X based Info Explorer remotely on a non-RISC/6000 display,
because of its heavy dependence on the PostScript extension to the X
server. The Info Explorer, although very user friendly and powerful
when used on the local display, cannot seriously be considered as a
replacement for `man' for this reason. It is possible to convert much
of this information into standard man page nroff format, and I think it
would be a good project for the future. I don't know whether or not IBM
would be interested in doing this, but I'd suggest that it be mentioned
to them before much effort is put in on our side.
Richard> Wow, this message is right-justified, without trying.
My citer screws it up, which I consider a feature. :-)
Richard> -R
