Sari Khoury <3XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET> (06/27/91)
Hi, I recently got MacLayers all compiled and installed (I think) on my account on an Apollo Unix machine. I've heard that MacLayers is a real nice communications program. But when, I type 'layers' it refuses to run on the Apollo. I was just wondering if anyone knew how to set it up correctly for an Apollo Unix machine. Keep in mind, that I am a Novice Unix user so please speak in easy terms :) Thanks... Sari Khoury Art Department 3xmqgaa@cmuvm.bitnet Central Michigan University
tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) (06/28/91)
In article <91177.2104203XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET> 3XMQGAA@CMUVM.BITNET (Sari Khoury) writes: >Hi, I recently got MacLayers all compiled and installed (I think) on my >account on an Apollo Unix machine. I've heard that MacLayers is a real >nice communications program. But when, I type 'layers' it refuses to run >on the Apollo. I was just wondering if anyone knew how to set it up >correctly for an Apollo Unix machine. >Keep in mind, that I am a Novice Unix user so please speak in easy terms :) Perhaps if you gave us some more information we could help you. How did the compilation go? Any warnings/errors (I presume no errors ;) ). What do you mean by "it refuses to run"? What happens when you type layers? Do you get a message? Does it just return you to the prompt? Does it sit and spin ;). I don't use an Apollo, but I got it to run fine on a NeXT by playing with the makefile and a few pointer types etc etc. On a side note while MacLayers is a nice program I find it unusable for 2 minor and 1 major reasons. 1) It doesn't support a 38.4K connection 2) The vt emulation while I was on our VMS VAX systems wasn't the best. It wouldn't recognize many of the escape codes nor many of the term attributes. 1) Downloading is horrendous. I would like to have a nice simple zmodem transfer. I don't want to have to bother dividing my files into .info .data etc etc. Did I miss something? Is there a newer version? Thus I'll stick with White Knight for now. Todd -- Internet: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu NeXTMail: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu BitNet: tagreen@iubacs.bitnet