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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Problem using xcalc.  Need a clue...
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Date: 6 Jul 90 21:16:35 GMT
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In article <2312@dover.sps.mot.com> cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com.UUCP (Andrew H Cowan) writes:
>Now, the particulars are that I have installed the same ".so" libs on
>both systems, however on the Solbourne I have not installed the libs
>in /usr/lib (rather, thanks to some of you kind net.folks, I've 
>discovered the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable) but in an alternate directory.
>On the Solbourne we still have X11R3 installed in /usr/lib.
Xcalc need to beable to find .../lib/app-defaults/Xcalc, if you compiled it
to look somewhere else, it will fail.  The is an enviroment var you can set
to make it look elsewhere (I forget what it is, but it's in the docs).
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