[comp.windows.x] XRN under Ultrix 4.0

vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) (08/11/90)

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Has anyone managed to make XRN work properly with DECwindows under Ultrix 4.0?
When I run the "latest and greatest" version (xrn 6.9), I find that the cursor
(carat) does not appear in any of the displays. This is inconvenient, to put it
mildly. When I roll back to xrn 5.4, this problem is solved. However, with
either version, XRN seems to chow memory like there was no tomorrow - doing a
"ps aux" while running it shows that it uses 65% (over 14MB) of the memory on
a 24MB DS5000/200PX. Needless to say, this doesn't do much good for any other
processes running on the machine. The same binaries, when run on an 3.1C-0
system use much more reasonable amounts of memory - around 1MB (which seems to
be pretty standard for X programs). Any hints or ideas?

	Thanks,
	--Vince

mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) (08/13/90)

In article <1990Aug11.013329.18724@morrow.stanford.edu> vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
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>Has anyone managed to make XRN work properly with DECwindows under Ultrix 4.0?
>When I run the "latest and greatest" version (xrn 6.9), I find that the cursor

Latest and greatest is xrn 6.11 from shambhala.berkeley.edu:

ftp> dir pub/xrn
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (192.31.215.202,1063) (0 bytes).
total 864
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      240105 Jun 22 10:34 xrn6-10.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      346727 Aug  2 14:08 xrn6-11.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      260191 Dec 22  1989 xrn6-4.tar.Z
226 Transfer complete.
remote: pub/xrn

vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) (08/14/90)

In article <2303@dali>, mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
> In article <1990Aug11.013329.18724@morrow.stanford.edu>
vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
> >-----
> >
> >Has anyone managed to make XRN work properly with DECwindows under
Ultrix 4.0?
> >When I run the "latest and greatest" version (xrn 6.9), I find that
the cursor
> 
> Latest and greatest is xrn 6.11 from shambhala.berkeley.edu:
> 
> ftp> dir pub/xrn
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (192.31.215.202,1063) (0 bytes).
> total 864
> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      240105 Jun 22 10:34 xrn6-10.tar.Z
> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      346727 Aug  2 14:08 xrn6-11.tar.Z
> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      260191 Dec 22  1989 xrn6-4.tar.Z
> 226 Transfer complete.
> remote: pub/xrn

Unforunately, version 6.11 doesn't appear to work any better. The latest
version
that I can find which doesn't exhibit the "no cursor" problem is 6.4. I
have yet
to find a version that isn't a memory pig on a 4.0 system. Doesn't anyone have
a reasonable version of xrn running on an Ultrix 4.0 system??

	Thanks,
	--Vince

mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang) (08/15/90)

In article <1990Aug14.022810.24587@morrow.stanford.edu>,
vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
|> Unforunately, version 6.11 doesn't appear to work any better. The
latest
|> version
|> that I can find which doesn't exhibit the "no cursor" problem is 6.4.
I
|> have yet
|> to find a version that isn't a memory pig on a 4.0 system. Doesn't
anyone have
|> a reasonable version of xrn running on an Ultrix 4.0 system??

Before I left my "previous place of employment" :-), we were running
xrn 6.9 on Ultrix 4.0 running on DECstation 3100's with no problem.  I
don't recall the need for any patches.

I hope you're not defining R3.  None of the optional configuration
options were necessary, except possible for DEC_FOCUS_PATCH if you use
dxwm.

Have you tried the same binary on a DS3100 instead of your DS5000?

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
               mikey@sgi.com           415/335-1786

snorthc@pokey.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt) (08/17/90)

In article <2303@dali>, mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
|> In article <1990Aug11.013329.18724@morrow.stanford.edu>
vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
|> >-----
|> >
|> >Has anyone managed to make XRN work properly with DECwindows under
Ultrix 4.0?
|> >When I run the "latest and greatest" version (xrn 6.9), I find that
the cursor
|> 
|> Latest and greatest is xrn 6.11 from shambhala.berkeley.edu:
|> 
|> ftp> dir pub/xrn
|> 200 PORT command successful.
|> 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (192.31.215.202,1063) (0 bytes).
|> total 864
|> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      240105 Jun 22 10:34 xrn6-10.tar.Z
|> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      346727 Aug  2 14:08 xrn6-11.tar.Z
|> -rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      260191 Dec 22  1989 xrn6-4.tar.Z
|> 226 Transfer complete.
|> remote: pub/xrn

So I snarfed it (xrn6-11) and tried it on a DEC 3100 running
Ultrix 4.0:

$ make -f Makefile.NoXtr
cc -O   -I/usr/include       -c buttons.c
cpp: error buttons.c:47: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Paned.h
cpp: error buttons.c:48: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Label.h
cpp: error buttons.c:49: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Command.h
cpp: error buttons.c:50: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Box.h
cpp: error buttons.c:51: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/AsciiText.h
cpp: error buttons.c:52: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Dialog.h
*** Error code 1

Stop.
$

Bet it compiles no problem on my Sun 3 running R4 though.
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mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) (08/19/90)

In article <1990Aug16.202950.15758@relay.nswc.navy.mil> snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt) writes:
>So I snarfed it (xrn6-11) and tried it on a DEC 3100 running
>Ultrix 4.0:
>
>$ make -f Makefile.NoXtr
>cc -O   -I/usr/include       -c buttons.c
>cpp: error buttons.c:47: Can't find include file X11/Xaw/Paned.h




Wild speculation would lead me to believe that it needs to be
'-I/usr/include/mit', to get the MIT stuff...