greg@eemips.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) (08/08/90)
I'm running X11R4 on a Sun 386i (SunOS 4.0.2). Trying to get xtroff to run (also have this same problem with xditview). The problem is that the docs for these two clients refer to a device creation program called 'makedev.' The 386i has /dev/MAKEDEV but this doesn't seem to be the program that is needed. The makedev needed for xtroff needs to be able to take, as a command line argument, the name of a description file (DESC) and produce some files of the form '*.out'. Sun's /dev/MAKEDEV does not appear to do this. Does anyone know where I can find the correct makedev, or how to make mine work in the desired fashion? Thanks for helping. Peace, -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Greg Economides Internet: greg@zadok.tamu.edu Texas A&M University greg@eemips.tamu.edu
mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) (08/09/90)
Makedev is part of AT&T DWB (Documentors Work Bench). It might also be available in some other freely available ditroff package. -- Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart