BUG@campus.swarthmore.EDU (04/29/89)
Thanks for the reply, people from SGI.COM. (For some reason, our mailer can't parse your address; it may be the "!".) I am running version 3.1 Rev. C, not D, which we loaded soon after its release in January. We have a 4D/70 GE-38. Perhaps I am not implementing the code correctly; I am not sure what Gavin meant by running (under, with?) "/bin/sh--". That command seems to put me in a Bourne shell. Whether or not I use it, the backgrounder neglects to refresh icons and window margins. -Amy Bug, Swarthmore College (BUG@SWARTHMR)
gavin@krypton.SGI.COM (Gavin Bell) (04/29/89)
Yup, you need 3.1revD to run the background program I posted-- otherwise, it just acts like it is taking over the screen, and writes on top of everything, Sorry about the confusion about the '/bin/sh' -- I meant for you to save part of my posting in a file (e.g. 'gavinposting') and then use /bin/sh to run it by typing '/bin/sh gavinfile'-- it would have automagically compiled and ran the program. --gavin
tim@ZORAC.DCIEM.DND.CA (Tim Pointing) (04/29/89)
How do I tell which revision of the O.S. is running on my 4D/20. All it says is "4D1-3.14711181642". I can see the 4D in there as well as the "3.1" but is the rev in there too? People have been talking about Rev C and Rev D but I can't tell what I have (except that a number of the programs which have appeared in this mailing-list/newsgroup don't work!) Thanks in advance, Tim Pointing, DCIEM tim@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca / uunet!zorac.dciem.dnd.ca!tim / uunet!mnetor!dciem!tim
msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (04/30/89)
In article <8904291619.AA18057@zorac.DCIEM.DND.CA>, tim@ZORAC.DCIEM.DND.CA (Tim Pointing) writes: > How do I tell which revision of the O.S. is running on my 4D/20. All it > says is "4D1-3.14711181642". I can see the 4D in there as well as the "3.1" > but is the rev in there too? People have been talking about Rev C and Rev D > but I can't tell what I have (except that a number of the programs which > have appeared in this mailing-list/newsgroup don't work!) > If all you see is a long string of numbers then you have release 3.1 Rev C or earlier. Starting with 3.1 Rev D the system banner says "IRIX System V Release 4D1-3.1x where x is the revision letter. -- -Mark
djlinse@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dennis Linse) (05/02/89)
In article <31649@sgi.SGI.COM> msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) writes: >In article <8904291619.AA18057@zorac.DCIEM.DND.CA>, tim@ZORAC.DCIEM.DND.CA (Tim Pointing) writes: >> How do I tell which revision of the O.S. is running on my 4D/20. > >If all you see is a long string of numbers then you have release 3.1 Rev C >or earlier. Well, now I know that our 4D/20 that arrived today (May 1) is running release 3.1 Rev C. Should this upset me? Should a brand new machine arrive with Rev D? More simple (maybe :-), what are the big differences between Rev C and Rev D? (While I have been reading this group for a while, it is only today that the difference seems important. Funny how a new machine will get ones attention.) Thanks, Dennis -- Found at the top of a looonnng homework assignment: "Activity is the only road to knowledge" G.B. Shaw