cp@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Costas Papas) (03/01/91)
Hi there, I have a couple a question 1. When did IRIX 3.3 come out. We bought the IRIX 3.2 upgrade in April 1990. What I am wondering is if we are entitled to a free upgrade to 3.3? (This is may be true if the 3.3 came out shortly after we bought the 3.2) Thanks in advance Costas cp@joker.mil.ufl.edu
neuro@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Sean Marrett) (03/04/91)
Hello.
Our lab has recently acquired several SGI workstations, and we
are finally making the move from VMS to these new systems. Although
I have had some luck in getting some tools working on the SGI,
there are still a few things that don't seem to work quite properly.
Probably a lot of these questions would be answered in a Frequently
Asked Questions posting, but such a beast doesn't seem to exist in
this newsgroup.
Down to business: I have gotten tcsh to build, as well as Gnumacs
and TeX, but I am having problems getting Dirk Grunwalds Xdvi to work
(this is the distribution available from foobar.colorado.edu). When I start
Xdvi up, it dies with a message saying that Xt_AddFontpath has failed.
Some other oddities seem to be that 'xset +fp fontpath' only works from
a process running within an xterm - I presume this is a related problem.
Presumably, all I need to do is to set my .xSGINeWS.cmd file up properly,
but I can't figure out how.
As a follow on question, does there exist a list of what GNUish
and TeXish software is running on the SGI systems, ie with FTP archive sites
available ?.
Thanks for your help. Please e-mail to me directly, and
I'll try to follow this up with a summary posting
that might help other neophyte SGI installations.
Sean Marrett
Positron Imaging Labs
Montreal Neurological Institute
sean@petvax.medcor.mcgill.ca