Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac,att!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!gk5g+ From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: built andrew -- what next? Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 19:17:59 GMT References: <3143@charon.cwi.nl> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 60 Excerpts from misc: 14-Mar-91 built andrew -- what next? Guido van Rossum@uunet.u (1438) > I built andrew (patchlevel 9) on a Sun4 with color screen running > SunOS 4.1 with X11R4 (recent patchlevel I assume). There are problems with the current distribution on SunOS4.1 systems. The next patch should make things much nicer on those machines. I don't have any information on when the next patch might come down. Until then, we can research several possibilities. Excerpts from misc: 14-Mar-91 built andrew -- what next? Guido van Rossum@uunet.u (1438) > There is no > configuration choice for this platform so I pretend it is 4.0 and > complilation looks like it works smoothly. Can you send your site files (andrew/config/site.{h,mcr}). There's this thing called the resolver ... Excerpts from misc: > - "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 help sources should be built by default. I have a sneaky suspicion that the build failed a few times and you didn't successfully finish the procedure. Excerpts from misc: > - 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. Granted. It would be better if you brought up the help program and read the andrew tour. Excerpts from misc: > - 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? Once again this results from not completing the build process. You can fix this by running mkfontdir /usr/andrew/X11fonts. Excerpts from misc: > 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? See above regarding clues. There are some dusty old guys in the back room ... claim they're building a better text editor. Seriously, there are some nice changes coming in the next patch. Gary Keim ATK Group