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From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Help: Seyon installation
In-Reply-To: jlu@cs.umr.edu's message of Fri, 4 Dec 1992 18:13:41 GMT
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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 20:51:30 GMT
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>>>>> On Fri, 4 Dec 1992 18:13:41 GMT, jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu ) said:
EJL> Hi *,
EJL> I have managed to compiled Seyon 1.3, a X-based comm. packages.
EJL> However, when I ran it, the buttons in the command center window
EJL> are overlapped and the font is too small to read. Although
EJL> I can re-size the windows, I think something wrong with my
EJL> setup. (Note, I have "make install". So, the Seyon is indeed
EJL> in app-defaults.)
EJL> Has anyone in this group managed Seyon to work? If not, any
EJL> sugguestion to other working X-based comm package (except kermit)
EJL> works with Xfree86/386bsd and supports auto zmodem download.
EJL> Thanks in advance!
Nice to know someone in the 386BSD world has compiled Seyon. I tried
to make it as portable as I can, and starting from version 1.3, Seyon
uses the termios interface to be POSIX compliant (the current version,
by the way, is 1.4. You can get it from sipb.mit.edu or
export.lcs.mit.edu. It fixes a few bugs in 1.3). I don't have a 386BSD
system myself, so I could never test it in that environment. However,
I'm very keen on making it 386BSD-friendly.
The problem you described is almost certainly caused by Seyon not
being able to obtain its resources from the app-defaults file, maybe
make installed it in the wrong place. A temporary solution would be
invoke Seyon by something like
setenv XENVIRONMENT ./Seyon.ad
seyon
and see if you get the correct behavior (this assumes you are in
Seyon's build directory). If you're using bash, do
XENVIRONMENT=./Seyon.ad; export XENVIRONMENT
seyon
Let me know where make installed the app-defaults file, and I can work
with you to make Seyon usable on 386BSD. My e-mail address is at the
bottom of this post (and top also, of course). Seyon works well with
XFree86 and has as much bells and whistles as many of the decent DOS
comm programs, including ZMODEM auto-download (shameless plug
department :-)).
--
/M. Saggaf
alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu