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From: knish@hpcllld.HP.COM (Doreen Kawanishi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: S.O.S. LISP and Starbase problem.
Message-ID: <1280001@hpcllld.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 89 17:48:49 GMT
References: <204@goya.dit.upm.es>
Organization: Hewlett Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Greetings.

In response to your S.O.S., here is a possible solution:

>
>
>	This is not a great problem (I hope) (where is this symbol defined?),
>the real problem apears when trying to initialize Starbase, it returns an 
>error:
>
>Starbase Error 8: Hardware especified is not installed on this system.
>	procedure name   : gopen
>	file descriptor  : 5
>	device file name : /dev/screen/FOO
>	library location : HP300 driver (4)
>
>The function perror() prints out "Invalid argument".

Make sure /dev/screen/FOO is defined (is a VALID device file).  You will get
"Invalid argument" if it is not defined correctly.  For more info on this,
please refer to the "HP-UX System Administrator Manual" under Device files.
Also refer to INSF (Insert Special File function).

>This is not all, if we compile and run the program out of the LISP environment,
>as an executable program...
>
>		IT WORKS !!! (funny, isn't it?)

Here, /dev/screen/FOO could have been defined correctly; hence, no error.

This is just a possible solution.  Would need more information to determine
what the problem is.  In the future, please contact the European HP Response
Center, as NOTES is not monitored regularly for bugs/problems.    

HP Lisp Support staff