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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: built andrew -- what next?
Message-ID: <3143@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 14 Mar 91 12:45:40 GMT
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I built andrew (patchlevel 9) on a Sun4 with color screen running
SunOS 4.1 with X11R4 (recent patchlevel I assume).  There is no
configuration choice for this platform so I pretend it is 4.0 and
complilation looks like it works smoothly.

Then, several problems crop up.

- "help" isn't built by default.  When I build it manually it dumps core.
Is there any other way to get at the documentation, so I know where to
start?

- The top-level README file doesn't tell me what to try first.
I can call "ez" on a textfile but it looks pretty boring.

- The default font used by "ez" appears to be "andyoffice12", which
has funny icons instead of some upper case letters.  What do I do to
fix this?

- The menus are weird.  Is it really intentional that
when I move to the center of a menu, the menu lying below and to the
right of it pops up as soon as I am above it (but also still above the
one on top of it)?  I'd expect underlying menus to pop up only when I
move outside the upper menu.

- "ez" seems to dump core now and then (haven't dared to go in with
the debugger yet).

- I would really like to run it on a SGI IRIS 4D/25 running IRIX
3.3.2.  Anybody got configuration files for that platform?

Anybody got clues?  Is it worthwile to keep trying to use Andrew, or
should I give it up?  Are the originators still developing this version?

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
"A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise"