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From: jlhaferman@l_ecn09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: MacLayers on Apollo...
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:48:12 GMT
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From article <9106272158.AA10967@cel.cummins.com>, by philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny):
> Sari Khoury asks:
>    Hi, I recently got MacLayers all compiled and installed (I think) on my
>    account on an Apollo Unix machine. I've heard  that MacLayers is a real
>    nice communications program. But when, I type 'layers' it refuses to run
>    on the Apollo. I was just wondering if anyone knew how to set it up
>    correctly for an Apollo Unix machine.
>    Keep in mind, that I am a Novice Unix user so please speak in easy terms :)
>         
>         Well... If we are going to help, we need some more information...
> (Personally, I have no idea what MacLayers is or what it does...)  So,
> what is MacLayers, what is it supposed to do when set up correctly?
> When you say it refuses to run, what does that mean, what error messages
> do you get.  How did you build the executable, did you use a make
> file?  Specifically for the Apollo please give the value of your
> SYSTYPE environment variable.
> 


I didn't post the original question, but I tried to get Maclayers running
on an Apollo several months ago without any success.  Maclayers is a
shareware (?) program that was available on comp.mac.binaries, and is
a terminal emulator that allows multiple windows (shells) on your Mac.
I got the Mac side of the application running, it is the server side which
runs on the Apollo that I could not get running.  I don't remember the
problems, but I know that for a couple of steps you need to be the
superuser to get things going.  I contacted a couple of people back
then, and their conclusion was that it would take a lot of work to get
it running on an Apollo.  Sorry I don't remember any specifics.

I'd be interested in hearing if anybody has got the thing going on
an Apollo.


Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
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