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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help with Emacs (and a message to Max Ott)
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Date: 13 Feb 89 17:38:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: chris@spock (Chris Ott)

In article <907@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, chris@spock (Chris Ott) writes:
>  1) On a Sun-3 and a Sun-4, running SunOS 4.0.1, emacstool compiles and
>     runs fine, but I can't seem to get a scrollbar. Why not?

If thie mouse works (I assume it does since you didn't complain), the
"scrollbar" is the right edge of each window; mouse hits in this area
behave according to the assignments for the scrollbar region.  There
is no graphical representation of it.  Look at the code in
lisp/sun-mouse.el for more details.  It is possible you are configured
so that it is hard to hit; check the setting of the variable
scrollbar-width.

>  2) Only on the Sun-4, I can't get the documentation program to compile.
>     The "make" terminates with the message:
>
>          sh: : cannot execute
>
>     Why? I can get the rest of the stuff to compile, but any time I
>try to get help, I get the message "Cannot exec binary file".

Hmmm.  Maybe the program make-docfile is a Sun3 executable and can't
execute on the Sun4?  Have you removed it and tried over?  Is the CC
variable in etc/Makefile set up properly, or does it default correctly
for the Sun4 in make?

[I've never tried any of this on a Sun4]
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/jr
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