jst@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jon Turner) (12/01/89)
I'm trying to set up a workable X environment on our Sun network that includes several SparcStations. I've been having trouble with several of the tools that I've obtained and am hoping that someone out there has solved these problems so I won't have to. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Magic. This is the biggie. We use the Berkeley Magic tools for VLSI design. I've built a new version of Magic using the changes done by Marco Papa at USC. Magic comes up and sort of runs, but the outlines of cells are drawn as dotted lines, some outlines are missing altogether, outlines for vias are missing and some of the crosses on other vias are partly or completely missing. If this is a known bug and there is a know fix, please let me know. Also, Magic runs noticeably slower under X than under Sunview. Is this inherent? If not, is anyone working to make it faster? Xperfmon. I've built it and it executes but bombs with the message ``vmstat: Disk init info not in namelist.'' I'm guessing there are enough machine-dependencies in this program that it won't run on a SparcStation without some modifications. Has anyone gotten this running on a SparcStation and if so, how? Mail tool. Is there a mail tool similar to the sunview one that runs under Xwindows? Yes, I know about xmh, but mh seems to be such a behemoth that I'd rather not install it if I don't have to. Tex previewers. I have both texx and xdvi but I can't get either running. In the case of texx it fails with a message about an X-protocol error. In particular it says ``BadMatch, invalid parameter attributes'' then goes on to give major and minor opcodes of the failed request and some other stuff. If anyone has this working, I'd appreciate it. Xdvi fails for lack of .pxl files. We use .gf here and I'd rather not resort to creating the .pxl files just for xdvi if I can help it. Does anyone have texx working on a SparcStation? Any opinions on the relative merits of texx and xdvi? Are there other TeX previewers out there that I should be looking at? That's it. Please send replies to jst@wucs1.wustl.edu and thanks for your support.