[comp.text.tex] Doesn't showit work on anyone else's X display?

mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) (01/15/91)

This is my second message in my quest for a working showit command; the first
met with no response whatsoever, and I'm getting a little desperate.

I'm using the University of Washington METAFONT distribution, which seems to
compile cleanly.  I've compiled it on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.0, and
a SUN SPARCstation IPC running SunOS 4.1.1.  MF works just fine for the most
part, but the showit command doesn't even cause MF to blink.  All the source in
./TeX3.0/mf/MFwindow compiled properly and window.a in the same directory seems
to be fine.

I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing, but I'm at a complete loss at the
moment.  Has anyone else gotten the showit command to work under X?  Did you
have to do anything special to get it to work other than just doing "make"?

				---Ken McGlothlen
				   mcglk@bailey.cpac.washington.edu