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From: marc@neon.paloalto.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Various new rs/6000 owner questions
Keywords: info, gl
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.234841.9090@ibmpa>
Date: 8 Aug 90 23:48:41 GMT
References: <3490@leah.Albany.Edu>
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Reply-To: marc@neon.paloalto.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstations Division, Palo Alto
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In article <3490@leah.Albany.Edu>, rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
|> 1)
|> Can somebody either tell me or point to a place in info that
|> will reveal whether or not the info databases can be put
|> on a remote (non-AIX, non-NFS, but Unix and on the local net)
|> machine? If I could get back that 60-70 megs, I'd be happy for
|> a while...

They are just files - we NFS-mount them here and info works just fine.
Assuming that $LANG is set to En_US (USA/English setup), copy the directory
tree rooted at /usr/lpp/info/En_US onto your remote system.  Then delete
the files on the '6000 (after backing them up, of course).  If you mount
the files at /usr/lpp/info/En_US on the '6000, info won't know the difference.

How do you propose to "put the database" on a remote, NON-NFS machine?

|> 
|> 2)
|> As far as the graphics goes, are the gl libraries already someplace
|> on the disk, or are they mushed up with the X stuff? And are there
|> some groovy demo-type things that show what gl can do? Is gl
|> totally bound up with X, or is it separately programmable, and
|> where is the documentation for it?

/lib/libgl.a is the GL library.  /usr/include/gl has the include files.

I speak for myself, not IBM.

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