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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: MGR installation
Message-ID: <9862@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 21:48:31 GMT
References: <8901271859.AA29288@wind.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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I installed mgr on my Sun-3 (SunOS 3.4) last week.  As has been reported here, the makefiles
have a few problems, but I did manage to get working executables.  After I figured out how
to get printed copies of the man pages, I ran through them one by one to see how things ran.
These are my notes from that experience.  Note that I didn't spend any time investigating
any of this stuff.  If something didn't work, I just noted it and went on.

Cut fails with the message:
	sh: hm: not found
	/usr/mgr/bin/cut: Can't start (hm -s)

Iconmsgs complains about not finding a bounds file.

Lock put up a really pretty outer-space picture, but then wouldn't let me back in!  I had
to rlogin and kill it.

Maze briefly prints something about not finding a service.  When 2 mazes are running, they
don't know about each other.

Menu needs /bin/ksh.  Someone posted that csh works just fine, but I haven't tried it yet.

Typing the command "eval `set_termcap`" complained "unmatched '".

Snap doesn't do anything useful that I can see.  From the man page, I guess I expected to
be able to rubber-band a box bounding the pixels to be saved.  I couldn't get the mouse buttons
to do anything useful.  

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?  If your answer is RTFM, please send me a real toasty
flame!  It's going to be *cold* in Seattle when that air-mass that's been freezing Alaska starts
sliding south later this week!  :-)

Paul
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