rapatel@khnphwzhn.njin.net (Rocky - Rakesh Patel) (02/27/90)
chump and chomp fail to read my events.champ file on a Sparcstation-1 running SunOS 4.0.3c. I've created the calendar file using chimp via ez and veried it is correct. chump and chomp simply don't read the file. I've tried setting the champpath explicitly and have had no luck with it. Anyone have any patches/info on this problem? Has anyone even seen this problem? Thanks, Rakesh Patel.
nsb@thumper.bellcore.com (Nathaniel Borenstein) (02/28/90)
Which version of Andrew are you running? It seems to me I had that problem with a poorly configured beta-version, but Champ runs fine for me now -- I've had no problems with the R3 release (except for a screen-redisplay glitch in CHOMP, which I've diagnosed and reported to the ITC.) I use the following preference to get at my champ files: *.champpath: ~/lib/champ/dapper.champ:~/lib/champ/events.champ:~/lib/champ/hebrew.cham p I run in the same hardware and OS environment that you do, so I suspect the problem is somewhere either in your preferences or conceivably the ANDREWDIR variable or something in the in your AndrewSetup file. One possibility is that you've got the system configured wrong vis-a-vis the white pages, yellow pages, and /etc/passwd. In this case, the software might not be properly resolving tildes in your preferences. You can test this hypothesis by running the CUI program and giving the command "cat ~/preferences" (i.e. asking it to cat a file in your home directory). If that doesn't work, that is probably CHAMP's problem, too, and you should look at the configuration values that tell the system what to use for a password/wp/yp database. If you're really stuck, bear in mind that "chump" is a non-ATK program, and therefore easy to debug with any debugger. Look particularly at the piece of code where it reads your champ path (atk/champ/read.c). Good luck. -- Nathaniel