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From: ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: I build xps (PostScript) for HPUX
Keywords: help HPUX
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.011307.5998@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 01:13:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.162913@dali.gatech.edu> <1991Mar9.064115.5926@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991Mar9.064115.5926@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> teg@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Tim Gurbick) writes:
>In article <1991Mar8.162913@dali.gatech.edu> mikeg@dali.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) writes:
>>
>>	I built xps, the X PostScript interpretter
>>on my HPUX 7.0 series 300, and is compiled cleanly.
>>The problem is that when I try to run it, it gives
>>a buss error and dumps core, without any messages about
>>why or where it is going wrong.
>>	Know how to fix it?  Or maybe if you have a binary,
>>I could get it from you?
>
>Despite the fact that we are able to get real X11R4 stuff from me10 (thanks,
>jem!), we have now run into a collective brick wall.  Regardless of whether
>things compile and link cleanly or not, HP's X server doesn't seem to speak
>X the way the rest of the world does, which leaves us all up a certain creek
>without a certain paddle.  Of course, were we to build our own servers from
>the Mit code, then we could probably trash all our HP X binaries.  This is
>my guess from trying to get things working for the past couple of weeks.  I
>would LOVE for somebody to prove me wrong here, but there's LOTS of stuff I
>just can't get working.
>
>So how about it, HP?  Is it all THAT unreasonable for us to expect to ftp and
>build some of the toys from export.lcs.mit.edu and have them work?  Things I
>would like to see like xrn, xps, xpostit, xtalk, and others seem mere inches
>out-of-reach.
>
  At my previous job I compiled and ran daily xrn & xpostit for sure. As well
as a lot of other things from the R4 tape and expo.  I use R4 libraries and
HP's sever.

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