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Subject: Re: built andrew -- what next?
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 14-Mar-91 built andrew -- what next?
Guido van Rossum@uunet.u (1438)

> - "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?

You need to add a line to your {andrew}/config/site.mcr or
{andrew}/config/site.h file that looks like
#define MK_HELP 1
to get this to be built automatically.  There's an
{andrew}/atk/help/doc/Maint.doc that gives some clues for how to build
it.  Nonetheless, it shouldn't be pointlessly dumping core.

> - 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.

Were you able to run Messages and look at the demo folder that the
{andrew}/ams/demo installation created?  That demo contains some
interesting-looking insets.  If you can get ez working but not Messages,
you can run ez on the numeric-named files in the {andrew}ms/demo source
area.

> - 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?

I could be wrong, but I thought that the default font was andy10 or
andysans10.  In any case, you should be able to put the line
	*.bodyfont: andy12
into your $HOME/preferences, $HOME/.preferences, or $HOME/.Xdefaults
file and get it to use andy12 as a default font, which should work
better.

> - 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.

Yes, this is intentional (sigh).  There are preference settings to
control this behavior, but I forget what they are for now.

		Craig