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From: steve@lia (Stephen Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Andrew on SUNS
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.012231.3427@lia>
Date: 30 Apr 91 01:22:31 GMT
Reply-To: steve@lia.com (Stephen Williams)
Organization: Litton/Integrated Automation, Alameda, California
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I have SUN workstations, running SunOS 4.1.1, and I have been able to
compile andrew from the X11R4 tape, patched to patch level 9.

In general it seems to work, but refuses to connect to remote X servers.
The following is what I see when I try to start ez:

	ararat[1, 108 ] % printenv DISPLAY
	bart:0.0
	ararat[1, 109 ] % ez foo
	Starting ez (Version 7.0, ATK 15.5); please wait...
	Could not open the display; this program will not run without a window system.
	Could not create new window.
	exiting.

I think I should mention, I am using yellow pages (NIS), not the domain name
service.  (It wasn't my choice.)  Is there something obvious I'm overlooking?
I tried undefining RESOLV_ENV in my site.h, but then runapp wouldn't link.


Also, typescript doesn't work.  I execute typescript, and it creates a window
just fine.  However,  after maybe printing a prompt, the shell dies leaving an
impotent typescript window -- I can type in it, but nothing gets executed.


Will patch #10 fix these problems?

Thanks in advance,
Steve Williams
steve@lia.com