jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (04/14/89)
Hello there,
Just tried playing with DWB in the AT&T universe and I came
accross a little problem. Whenever I try and use tbl all I
get is the 'usage' message. Nothing I do or try has the
slightest effect (except produce different error messages).
Tbl on the ucb side seems to work OK. Has anyone fixed tbl
in at&t or has everyone just used the ucb one instead?
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______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight,
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/ _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele,
(_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.pwolfe@kailand.KAI.COM (04/15/89)
> /* Written by jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk in kailand:comp.sys.sequent */ > Just tried playing with DWB in the AT&T universe and I came > accross a little problem. Whenever I try and use tbl all I > get is the 'usage' message. Nothing I do or try has the > slightest effect (except produce different error messages). > Tbl on the ucb side seems to work OK. Has anyone fixed tbl > in at&t or has everyone just used the ucb one instead? The only reason we have the SVAE environment installed is for ditroff and friends. The tbl in the AT&T universe works fine. Try "att tbl" (which runs the tbl command in the ATT universe) and you won't see any error messages. The problem you are experiencing when you try to run it from the UCB universe is that some of the files it needs aren't there (SVAE directories like /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /bin are reached using conditional symbolic links). We had to create some symbolic links to link files in both universes, but I can't seem to identify them at this point in time. I'll keep searching and let you know when I find them. One of the things on my "to-do" list is to post a package which will let Sequent users generate output on a PostScript laser printer using the troff that comes with the operating system. If anyone is interested, send email. We tried one of those $5000 troff packages on a one month trial basis, and the only difference between our output and theirs was that their "pic" generated boxes whose lines met perfectly and ours are off just a little bit. I thought the well written manuals and actually useful error messages were worth it, but the decision makers disagreed. Patrick Wolfe (pat@kai.com, {uunet,uiucuxc,sequent}!kailand!pat) System Manager, Kuck and Associates, Inc. "Optimizing Software for Super Computers"