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From: kriso@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Kris Olander)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: ?S directive in preferences (systype)
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Date: 9 Nov 90 16:48:35 GMT
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Excerpt from prefs.help
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Machine-specific preferences

    If you need to have preferences that are only active on a specific
    machine or sys-type (rt, sun3, vax), you can use the following
    preference forms:

    ?M=machine.name:preference
    ?S=systype:preference

    For example, the following line would cause typescripts you start
    while on the machine "pgh.andrew.cmu.edu" to be 600x600 pixels.

    ?M=pgh.andrew.cmu.edu:typescript.geometry:600x600

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I know that the ?M directive works since I have the line:

?M=lombard:messages.SurrogateHelpFile:  /afs/northstar/user/kriso/todo

in my preferences file and messages does pull up my todo list.  However,
when I have the following lines in my preferences file:

?S=sun4_40:ez.BackgroundColor: gold
?S=sun4_40:ez.ForegroundColor: #800000

nothing happens.

We are running AFS 3.0 and so I suspected that maybe /usr/afsws/bin/sys
(Transarc's version of 'sys') was getting executed instead of 
/usr/andrew/bin/sys.  That's why I chose sun4_40.  Both 'sys' commands
return the same string on a Sun4/110.

If I yank out the ?S=sun4_40, ez behaves as expected.

What's going wrong here??????


			-Kris