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From: oldam@math.liu.se (Olof Damberg)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: HELP: Andrew applications will not create window.
Message-ID: <9010131801.AA04901@math.liu.se>
Date: 13 Oct 90 18:01:47 GMT
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I got curious about the Andrew Toolkit, so I decided to take a few hours to
install the stuff and test it to see what it could offer us.
I took the Andrew distribution from the X11R4 release tape and patched it to
PL 7 (plus the vui patch). The patch logs reported no errors.
I compiled and installed the default set of programs plus MK_BASIC_UTILS on
a root account on one of our SPARC servers (SUN4/390 named calc)
The cc compiler was used with the CDEGUBFLAGS set to -O2
No radical changes in the site.h and the site.mcr files
I defined DEFAULT_ANDREWDIR_ENV to /usr/share/lib/X11/Andrew
The compilation and installation run without any pain whatsoever.

Now, when I try to run ANY windowbased Andrew program I always get the 
following message:

 calc[~]>help -display wagner:0.0
 Starting help (Version 7.2, ATK 15.1); please wait...
 No 'localhost' found in host table; creating new window.
 Could not open the display; this program will not run without a window system.
 help: failed to create new window; exiting.

A look in the /etc/hosts file gives that it IS a 'localhost' defined.
Is it looking in some other file (on what machine) ??
Needless to say, I am running X and every other X program I use runs smoothly.

I have setenv ANDREWDIR /usr/share/lib/X11/Andrew
       setenv DISPLAY wagner:0.0 (This my SUN3/50 on the local net)
and $ANDREWDIR/bin is in my PATH.
SUNOS 4.0.3 Export ; X11R4 PL 18, MIT Xsun server.

Maybe this info is insufficient for anyone to give me the solution to this,
but ANY pointers are GREATLY appreciated.

Another thing, I really miss some info file containing instructions for
setting the Andrew system up, once it is installed. Is there such a file ?
Perhaps I haven't looked closely enough...

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Olof Damberg                       | email: oldam@math.liu.se
Dept of Math, Linkoping University | phone: +46 13 281473
S-581 83  Linkoping, SWEDEN        | fax:   +46 13 100746