compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) (07/30/90)
Two weeks ago I asked a question about InfoExplorer using PC-Xsight. There were several good answers and I've learned a lot in two weeks. Unfortunately, my problem is still not solved. Please let me recap the problem. We are running on an RS6000 model 320 with 9021 software. The Ethernet has, presently, five PCs, each acting as an X-terminal using a program called PC-Xsight by Locus. PC-Xsight runs on DOS with an Ethernet board and (supposedly) looks like an X-terminal to AIXwindows. Generally works ok. When running AIX InfoExplorer while in PC-Xsight, the mouse pointer essentially disappears, but only within the text portion of an Info window. The pointer is correct in the Info window *frame* and elsewhere on the screen. By "essentially disappears" I mean that the mouse pointer becomes a rectangle of the same color as the background. It can be seen only when it passes over text. I have contacted Locus about this problem (three weeks ago); so far, no results. Guy Harris (guy@auspex.auspex.com) suggested that Info might be based on the Andrew toolkit and suggested that we obtain fonts from it. Further research showed that Harris was right and we did obtain the Andrew distribution. I have copied all 110 fonts from Andrew to a PC, compiled the fdbbdf.c program, and used it and bdftosnf to create useable Andrew fonts for PC-Xsight. The general appearance of Info has improved remarkably. However, the mouse pointer is still invisible. Marc Pawliger (marc@neon.paloalto.ibm.com) confirmed that Info is based on Andrew. He stated that Info only uses two cursor fonts, cursor.snf and icon12.snf. PC-Xsight comes with cursor but not icon12. I have copied both from the Andrew distribution and installed them correctly. No effect. Marc wrote, "Cursor should always be available and the only things that will look strange if icon12 is missing are text carets and the like." Doesn't sound like these fonts are the source of our problem. Last week I contacted the Andrew group at Carnegie-Mellon. Unfortunately, they said that IBM did all the programming on Info and they couldn't imagine what my problem was. Let me mention one other difference between Info on the console and Info on PC-Xsight. It probably is unrelated, but just in case... Info windows include their own banner line within the text area. This line says "info ... Customize". On our console, the line has a colored background. On PC-Xsight, the background is white. This probably evidences a color mapping problem, though colors seem fine elsewhere. Since the result (white) is the same as my invisible pointer, possibly there is some connection. If I really do have all the necessary font files, then the problem must be protocol related. Info must initiate some command which Xsight doesn't or can't handle. Some command which is not used by Motif or any other application I've tried thus far on AIX. All suggestions are welcome. If anyone has successfully run Info from PC-Xsight, please write so that we can compare notes. Thanks to all those who responded earlier and, hopefully, to those who can help me further. Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas compata@cup.portal.com compata@mcimail.com
jdr@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray) (03/14/91)
Has anyone out there had any problems running info -g remote to another platform ( like a sun or dec ) ? Seems to work ok for a while, but will eventually handup. No errors are reported on the remote platform, and none on the ibm. The only way to FIX the problem is to kill the info and start another one. -- Jim Ray Harris Semiconductor Internet: jdr@semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62B-022 Phone: (407) 729-5059 Melbourne, FL 32901
attwool@exocet.enet.dec.com (03/14/91)
> >Has anyone out there had any problems running info -g remote to >another platform ( like a sun or dec ) ? > >Seems to work ok for a while, but will eventually handup. No errors >are reported on the remote platform, and none on the ibm. The only >way to FIX the problem is to kill the info and start another one. I've had those sorts of problems when displaying it to an Ultrix workstation., but couldn't get it to even display on my VAXstation running DECwindows. I also had problems in trying to get aixterm to display output on my VAXstation also... I gave up... I keep getting this.. # xterm -d exocet:0 aixterm: BadValue, integer parameter out of range for operation Request code 1, minor code 0, serial #121, resource id -2 IOT/Abort trap(coredump) Justyn K
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) (03/15/91)
>> >>Has anyone out there had any problems running info -g remote to >>another platform ( like a sun or dec ) ? >> I haven't seen it hang yet, and I have one running which is a couple of days old. Also, has anyone noticed that the postscript created by printing graphics images under info -g does not have the magic "%!" as the first characters in the print job. This tends to cause problems when spooling to systems using transcript, since it prints it out as the postscript text. JHH -- Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu