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From: neuro@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Sean Marrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX question
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.193636.14309@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 19:36:36 GMT
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Hello.

    Our lab has recently acquired several SGI workstations, and we
are finally making the move from VMS to these new systems. Although
I have had some luck in getting some tools working on the SGI,
there are still a few things that don't seem to work quite properly.
Probably a lot of these questions would be answered in a Frequently
Asked Questions posting, but such a beast doesn't seem to exist in
this newsgroup.

   Down to business: I have gotten tcsh to build, as well as Gnumacs
and TeX, but I am having problems getting Dirk Grunwalds Xdvi to work 
(this is the distribution available from foobar.colorado.edu). When I start
Xdvi up, it dies with a message saying that Xt_AddFontpath has failed. 
Some other oddities seem to be that 'xset +fp fontpath' only works from
a process running within an xterm - I presume this is a related problem.
Presumably, all I need to do is to set my .xSGINeWS.cmd file up properly,
but I can't figure out how.

   As a follow on question, does there exist a list of what GNUish
and TeXish software is running on the SGI systems, ie with FTP archive sites
available ?.

Thanks for your help. Please e-mail to me directly, and
I'll try to follow this up with a summary posting
that might help other neophyte SGI installations.

Sean Marrett
Positron Imaging Labs
Montreal Neurological Institute
sean@petvax.medcor.mcgill.ca