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From: aimsuser@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (aimsuser citibank overseas)
Subject: PLEXUS XDP/HP AIMS USERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE
Keywords:  imaging HP AIMS, informix, plexus, XDP
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay
Distribution: world 
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:30:41 GMT

We are using HP's Advance Image Management System which
is the HP version of Plexus XDP (Extended Data Processing)
system for an imaging application. We would like to
know is there are any other users on the net who are
using this system also.

If other users can get in touch we can have a lot of
information exchange with nothing to lose.

Cheers,
Deenar Toraskar
(CITICORP SOFTWARE)
(aimsuser@shakti.ncst.ernet.in)



Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.windows.x
From: dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber)
Subject: Where to get libXaw (compiled) for HP9000/300 ??
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:41:08 GMT

I have FTP access...

Please give me a hint..

Thanks a lot!

Daniel

-- 
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SMTP: dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch / Voice: +41 31 9996664 / Fax: +41 31 9996751 
X.400: /G=Daniel/S=Huber/OU=Autelca/O=Ascom/P=EUnet/A=Arcom/C=ch/
UNIX is the answer....what was the question?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone)
Subject: Re: Disconnecting SCSI cables while system running
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:48:26 GMT
Organization: HP-UX Kernel Lab, Cupertino
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Dan R. Greening (dgreen@sti.com) wrote:
: It seems like this would be a useful thing to fix.  Any reason why the
: system has to panic, rather than spew a warning and wait for the drive to 
: come back on line, if a disk access is made to an unterminated bus?

An unterminated SCSI bus is not a directly detectable condition.  The
type of problem that may occur varies and when it occurs during the
course of a transaction varies.  Sometines the error is such that the
driver can and does recover transparently.  But if the driver cannot
recover transparently the system currently panics.
From: seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: colormap
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:04:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct7.190419.12544
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Oct6.204258.2828@mcc.com> unni@mcc.com writes:
>it seems like the hp's (750) colormap has the red and blue swapped.

ummm.... have you checked to make sure the cables on the back of the
 monitor are feeding the correct color guns?  

Swapping cables can produce -exactly- the symptoms you describe....
--dick (and sync is usually on Green, so it gets through...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: lucas@apollo.hp.com (Luke Makosky)
Subject: Re: Profile for HP9000s730
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:37:37 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <Bw6HIA.BD7.1@cs.cmu.edu> tor+@CS.CMU.EDU (Torsten Zeppenfeld) writes:
>I am trying to use 'prof' on my HP 730 workstation.  I get the
>program to compile (with the "-p" option), but as soon as I try
>to run it, I get a bus error.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>-Torsten
>
>PS: I am using the optional Ansi-C Compiler.

prof is broken at HP-UX 8.x and seems to give malloc problems at 9.0.
Use gprof instead. Compile and link with -G, process gmon.out file with
gprof.  In addition to working correctly, it gives you more info than prof.

--Luke
-- 
Lucas H. Makosky          Workstation Systems Group       /_ __
Solutions Consulting                Hewlett Packard      / //_/
lucas@apollo.hp.com   {mit-eddie,yale}!apollo!lucas        /  
 CHR-02-TM, 300 Apollo Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824
From: alpa@tsunami.mbari.org (Patrick Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Need Performance Info on 750 / 760
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:47:15 GMT
Organization: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

MBARI has a five year old 9000/850S (with 128MB of RAM) which is relatively 
slow and which costs mega-$$$ to maintain. It's currently used as a database 
server and as a general mail server. I'm considering replacing it with 2 
other systems: a new 760 with 384MB of RAM will be the database server and
one of our old 9000/3XX systems would become the mail server.

I've dug up the following performance information on the 850: 1.8 MFLOPS, 
14 MIPS, and 9.2 SPECMarks.

The 750 handles 23 MFLOPS, 76 MIPS, and 77.5 SPECMarks.

I've heard that the 760 performs at about 140 SPECMarks but I don't have any
other performance information.

Here are the questions I need to answer:
1. What is the raw compute power of the 760? (MIPS, MFLOPS)
2. I'm sure the 760 can compute circles around the 850 but it won't help
   a bit if the I/O bandwidth isn't there to get the data in and out of the
   system. Does anybody know what the I/O bandwidth of these systems (850S,
   750, and 760) are? Our SE gave me a figure of 32 MB/second for the 850 but
   I don't know how that compares to the others.
3. Does anyone know of any reason why I would NOT want to replace the 850
   with a 760? For example - is there anything in the 760's architecture
   which would make it a poor replacement as a database server?

Thanks a lot for any information. Please reply via email if you can.

-- 
Patrick Allen (alpa@mbari.org)
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	  Voice:  408-647-3724
160 Central Ave, Pacific Grove, CA  93950         FAX: 408-649-8587
From: mjo@slee01.srl.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: renice for hp700
Date: 15 Oct 1992 00:24:35 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Co.
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: slee01.srl.ford.com

In article <1992Oct14.185643.6204@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
diehl@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (John Diehl) writes:

:Is there any way to lower the priority of a job that is already
:running. Renice exists on the apollos/sun(bsd).

It is available for anonymous FTP from:
	iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu:/comp.hp/renice.tar.Z

I believe that renice will ship with HP-UX 9.0, but I'm the *last*
person you can expect to guarantee HP's behavior.  :)

					...Mike

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 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
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From: bobm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Montgomery)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:27:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Profile for HP9000s730
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, tor+@CS.CMU.EDU (Torsten Zeppenfeld) writes:

> I am trying to use 'prof' on my HP 730 workstation.  I get the
> program to compile (with the "-p" option), but as soon as I try
> to run it, I get a bus error.

Use gprof ("-G" option).  prof is seriously broken on 8.05/8.07.

Also, to get good profiles, you need to specify archive libraries
("-Wl,-a,archive") as well as "-G" when you link.  

Bob Montgomery, HP
From: boissat@dxcern.cern.ch (Christian Boissat)
Subject: User Area of a Process ?
Summary: How to access the user-area of a process ?
Keywords: user area process kmem
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:39:48 GMT


Hello,
On my HP9000/720 running HP-UX 8.07, I want to access the field [char
u_comm[MAXCOMLEN + 1]] containing the command name in the structure user
(<sys/user.h>).
For that I read in /dev/kmem each structure proc (<sys/proc.h>).
There is a field [preg_t *p_upreg] pointing to the pregion containing the
user area. Then I read in /dev/kmem the specific structure pregion
(<sys/pregion.h>) which has a field [reg_t *p_reg] pointing to the region.
Finally assuming that the region itself is the user area, I read in /dev/kmem
the specific structure user.
Apparently the fields seem to have wrong values... That means that I read
the kernel memory at the wrong place. Who has already done this in a better
way ?
	Thanks,
		Christian Boissat - CERN - boissat@vxcern.cern.ch
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:11607 comp.sources.wanted:4655
From: steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: routed for HP running HP-UX 8.05
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:53:35 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland



Can anyone suggest a 'routed' that will run on a Series 700 on which
'uname -a' gives  ->

	HP-UX xerxes A.B8.05  9000/720 46954172


Please reply by email and I will summarise.

"Thanks in advance" and all that!

Steve.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Salvini                   JANet       steve@uk.ac.hw.cs
Dept. of Computing & Elec Eng   Internet    steve@cs.hw.ac.uk
Heriot-Watt University          NSFNET      steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
EDINBURGH EH14 4AS Scotland UK  EARN/BITNET steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@UKACRL
Phone  (+44) 31 451 3418        UUCP        steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@uknet.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
Subject: Re: Postscript output on laserprinter? (Laserjet+?)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:58:50 GMT

Can one get a postscript font cartridge for a Laserjet+?
(so that you could print out postscript files dumped directly to
the printer?)

Thanks.

Brad Banko
b-banko@uiuc.edu

-- 
Brad Banko;  Dept of Physics;  U of Illinois;  b-banko@uiuc.edu
=========================================================================
Tatiana Gutsu for President!                     73 de kb8cne @ n9lnq.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: boissat@dxcern.cern.ch (Christian Boissat)
Subject: User area
Summary: User Area of a process ?
Keywords: User Area
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:20:52 GMT


Hello,
On my HP9000/720 running HP-UX 8.07, I want to access the field [char
u_comm[MAXCOMLEN + 1]] containing the command name in the structure user
(<sys/user.h>).
For that I read in /dev/kmem each structure proc (<sys/proc.h>).
There is a field [preg_t *p_upreg] pointing to the pregion containing the
user area. Then I read in /dev/kmem the specific structure pregion
(<sys/pregion.h>) which has a field [reg_t *p_reg] pointing to the region.
Finally assuming that the region itself is the user area, I read in /dev/kmem
the specific structure user.
Apparently the fields seem to have wrong values... That means that I read
the kernel memory at the wrong place. Who has already done this in a better
way ?
	Thanks,
		Christian Boissat - CERN - boissat@vxcern.cern.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: how do I get xterm to talk to an IRIX system?
From: nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:19:08 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: xterm HP-UX IRIX
Summary: xterm does not work with IRIX

I have recently purchased an HP9000/730. I want to telnet to my
university mainframe which runs IRIX (Silicon Graphics). If I open a
terminal window with xterm I can get get the IRIX machine to display
things properly e.g. using GNUemacs, more, elm, nn, etc. but the cursor &
function keys on the HP keyboard are not recognised which makes it hard
to use emacs which I have learned to use with a PC keyboard emulator
from my PC. HP keyboard IS a PC keyboard (for a Vectra) and was
supplied with the HP730.

Can anyone suggest how to get my HP system to talk sense to another Unix
system so that the HP keyboard behaves like a regular PC keyboard?
I dont care about using xterm - its just the closest I can get to useful
operation via telnet so far (useful for anything except editing).

TIA.

-- 

Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz
From: epope@bmerh351.bnr.ca (Eleanor Pope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Creating an Update tape
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:20:19 GMT
Reply-To: epope@bmerh351.bnr.ca (Eleanor Pope)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <1992Oct9.025034.13122@cognos.com>, maklinm@cognos.com (Max
Maklin) writes:
|>In article <1992Oct08.174448.5569@Schultz.ON.CA> peter@Schultz.ON.CA
(Peter Roeser) writes:
|>:^()     We have created a product for the HP 9000 series 700 line that is
|>:^()     a device driver and assorted add-ons.
|>:^()     We would like to distribute this package in update tapes.
|>:^()     Does anyone know of a script/tools to help put together
|>:^()     a DDS DAT tape in this format?
|>
|>While it is possible to do it is rather difficult and not user friendly.
|>HP does not support this in HPUX 8.X either.  In 9.0 they will have
|>utilities to package things through I believe fpackage.  This will be
|>supported. We too are faced to wait.
|>
|>Max
|>-- 
|>Max Maklin                                                P.O. Box 9707 
|>Technical Analyst	                           3755 Riverside Drive
|>Cognos Incorporated                              Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
|>Internet: maklinm@cognos.COM                 UUNet: maklinm@cognos.UUCP
                  

Sounds great!  Will the packages fpackage creates actually be uploadable
using 'update', and 'netdist'?   or will it use another interface?

Eleanor Pope
Bell Northern Research
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:11461 comp.protocols.nfs:2510 comp.sys.sun.misc:4571
From: stuart@TIVOLI.COM (Stuart Jarriel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: PC-NFS problem with HP-UX
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:51:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: Tivoli Systems, Inc

HPUX 8.X code is based on NFS3.4/3.5.   I know that you built your
own pcnfsd, but if you look at the include files that the pcnfsd
code used, specifically, /usr/include/rpc/auth_unix.h, you will see
that the old NFS restriction of 8 grps/user is still in effect for 
the code you just built.

HPUX9.0 is based on Sun's NFS4.X code, so the 8 goes to 16 (I think)

stuart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Subject: Re: Rebuilding shared libraries (Was /etc/hosts and name servers...)
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:26:03

In article <Bvq2xI.I8H@fc.hp.com> mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella) writes:
> I'm not sure I know what you mean by "rebuild" the library.  The only way to
> build a shared library is to link together the object files that comprise it
> with "ld".  You cannot extract the object files from libc.sl (nor can you do so
> on Sun).  Perhaps on the Sun you extracted the object files from the archive
> libc?  Then I would be surprised if they were PIC, so the resultant library
> would not in fact be shared (check by adding "-assert pure-text" when building
> the library).  On HP-UX, they definitely are not pic, and the Series 700/800
> does not support non-PIC dynamically loadable libraries.  They are supported on
> the Series 300/400, but not recommended for libraries such as libc.  Besides,
> they still require a special supplementary symbol table to be present in the
> object files, and that table is not present in that archive libc.
> 
> In short, you cannot "rebuild" a shared library for which you do not have
> either PIC object files, or sources, on either SunOS or HP-UX.  On Sun,
> presumably either your library was not truly shared, or they included PIC
> object files in the archive libc.

On Suns you *can* rebuild the shared library (/usr/lib/libc and /usr/5lib/libc)
because Sun actually supplies you with the PIC object files. Kudos to Sun, and
something HP could learn from! You need the SHLIB_CUSTOM package, which is on
the installation CDROM from 4.1.1 and onwards.

Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no, 
	sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca (John David Anglin)
Subject: Re: Help with disktab entries
Originator: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Keywords: Seagate
Organization: National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 04:22:22 GMT


In article <1992Oct13.054206.9429@nwnexus.WA.COM>, lampi@halcyon.com (Michael Lampi) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct12.100839.25237@hsr.no> kjell@hpa.rf.no (Kjell Sivertsen) writes:
|> >Can anyone help me with disktab entries for any of the following
|> >disks:
|> >
|> >ST41200N
|> >ST41651N
|> >ST41600N
|> >ST42100N
|> >ST42400N
|> >
|> >
|> >Our operating system is HP-UX 8.xx. HW-platform HP9000/400 and HP9000/700
|> >
|> >Thank you in advance.
|> >
|> >Kjell
|> 
|> To determine a disktab entry for *any* disk, take the output of
|> /etc/diskinfo -b /dev/rdsk/#s0, where # is the SCSI ID of the disk drive.
|> This is the number of 1K blocks on the drive.
|> 
|> Factor this number into three smaller numbers, in the ranges (1-511),
|> (1-255), and (1-9999) for ns, nt and nc, respectively. These values will
|> probably not be optimal, but will work for a start.

	In most cases with ZBR drives, the capacity will not factor exactly.
	I found that I obtained the best all round performance with the
	ST42400ND drive with ns approximately equal to the average number
	of 1K blocks per track (42) and nt equal to the number of heads (19).
	I doubt this is coincidence.  My testing indicated that performance
	would sometimes drop by a factor 2-4 when reading large files with
	small record sizes (512/1024 bytes).  I suspect an interaction
	between ns, nt and the rotational delay parameter for the file
	system.

|> 
|> Use values such as 1024 for f0, 8192 for b0, and (ns x nt x nc) for s0
|> (if you want no swap space, less if you do).
|> 
|> Run a disk i/o benchmark on the resulting configuration to see if the
|> disk performance is up to your satisfaction. If it is not, then
|> experiment with ns and nt.

	You must also experiment with the rotational delay (c.f. tunefs).  This
	is crucial to obtaining the best possible file system performance.

|> 
|> Good luck!
|> 
|> -- 
|> Michael Lampi         lampi@mdlcorp.com
|> MDL Corporation       15301 NE 90th Street, Redmond, WA 98052
|>                       (206) 861-6700    (206) 861-6767 FAX

Dave Anglin
National Research Council of Canada
100 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6
From: glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Glen Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: EISA device drivers on 730
Date: 12 Oct 92 08:32:23 GMT
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO

HP-UX Driver Development Guide 98577-90013 about $70.00 from HP Direct.
As far as I know it is not available ftp on open subnets.  The manual
is over 500 pages since it also covers VME and DIO on Series 300/400.

Not an official .... etc.

Glen - R
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: diehl@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (John Diehl)
Subject: renice for hp700
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:56:43 GMT

Is there any way to lower the priority of a job that is already running. Renice exists on the apollos/sun(bsd).
From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: Passing C flags from f77/fort77
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:33:56 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <1992Oct15.115146.4427@ucc.su.OZ.AU> wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong) writes:

>Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you pass C compiler options
>using fort77. Shouldn't there be some -W type option? e.g.

>	fort77 -c -Wc,-Aa,-DDEBUG,-D_HPUX_SOURCE foo.c

>Or do I resort to setting the environment variable.


>Alternatively, I want to use some eispack routine in a C programme.
>I can only link it when I use fort77 as the linker rather
>than cc or ld. However, I'm still getting a Bus error, which I presume
>has something to do with the main C programme being compiled with
>cc. Therefore, I've been trying to use fort77 to compile my C
>code. Is there another way?


Since the FORTRAN compiler does not invoke any part of the C compiler,
there is no way to pass "C compiler options" via f77(1), fc(1) or 
fort77(1) nor is there any way to compile C code using FORTRAN.

You should be compiling your C main program using "cc -c", then 
specifying the object file produced (whatever.o) as the first file
in your f77/fc/fort77 command line.



=======================================================================
 Mike Reaser, Hewlett-Packard N. Amer. Response Center - Atlanta
 Internet:  mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com  I barely speak for myself, so
 #include <standard.disclaimer>       don't make me speak for HP
=======================================================================
From: pkoch@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Peter F Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Help connecting NCD X-terminal
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:57:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Has anyone ever connected a NCD X-terminal to a HP9000/4xx Series computer
running HP-UX 8.0. I'm having trouble gettig fonts and the rgb.txt file 
to load from the server. 

===========================================================================
Peter Koch                                              Phone: 708-534-5200
Weston Gulf Coast Labs                     email:pkoch@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
2417 Bond St.
University Park, IL 60466
===========================================================================
From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Seeking mail filter
Summary: Unwanted mail source
Keywords: mail
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:18:34 GMT
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <Bw0HDy.6Ks@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gill@eagle (Warren Gill) writes:
>  Your .forward file can be a type of mail filter.  You can pipe your mail
>to a script, which can redirect, forward, or just throw away unwanted mail.

Of course, you could also figure out where the mail is comming from.
Normally, the root account doesn't get any mail at all.  Which
account is the mail coming from?  Does is appear with any time
regularity?  Do your users on remote machines get duplicate mail
messages?  Have you modified your config file?

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HPUX 9.0 LaserRom
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:58:35 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

Mine just came today, and I notice that printed along the edge of the disc is
"MPE V Documentation Disc"......
-- 
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Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:11423 comp.windows.x.apps:1229 comp.windows.x:17613
From: smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Common Command line args bug - any help appreciated
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:28:29 GMT
Reply-To: smr@pki-nbg.philips.de

smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm) writes:

Regarding my earlier posting:

>I have just discovered the following behaviour:

>% xterm -[normal xterm opts] -e foo -d 5 [other opts for foo]
>Error: Can't Open display

...

>Is there a way to stop XtInitialize() from picking up an argument, but
>while still leaving the argument in the list so it can be used by the
>command,  (in this case) so that xterm can pass it on to another command???

I found a work-around, namely, use quotes, ie:

    %xterm -[blah blah] -e foo '-d 5' [blah blah blah]

This is enough to stop XtInitialize() from seeing the -d, and it xterm
then passes it quite nicely to execvp etc etc...

I still think it shouldn't happen though!

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