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From: mcqueen@acf3.NYU.EDU (David McQueen)
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Subject: launching gl programs from the console wsh
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Date: 29 Jan 91 14:38:00 GMT
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For the past two years I have been running graphics programs on our 4D80GT
(currently Irix 3.3.1) employing the following piece of folklore:

 "never launch a graphics program from the wsh console window"

(Lest there be any confusion, I mean the window labeled "console" when the
window manager is running.)

I refer to this as folklore because I no longer remember the source of this
advice and cannot find any statement like it in any of TFM. I seem to remember
reading or being told that launching gl programs from the console could
render the workstation unusable without a subsequent reboot.

Lately we have found ourselves having to reboot the workstation frequently
after users have (I believe) violated the above advice, and I would like to
know whether that advice is fact or merely folklore. Does any one out there
have any knowledge/experience/opinion about launching gl programs from the
console window?

David M. McQueen,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University
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Disclaimer:  The above is just my opinion.  God Alone Knows.

David M. McQueen,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University