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- SOME NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MGR AS DONE THROUGH
- THE USENET NEWSGROUP COMP.SOURCES.UNIX
-
- --Rich $alz, Thu Nov 17 20:59:01 EST 1988
-
- This is the largest posting to ever appear in comp.sources.unix;
- I think it's worth it. Stephen has been very patient about getting
- this out. Those who attended Dan Nachbar's talk on "spiff"
- might remember a closing slide that said said "MGR is to X as
- Unix is to Multix." I'm not qualified to comment on the validity,
- but I think lots of people will find the Bellcore window system
- very interesting. Thanks to the folks there for making it possible
- for such great tools to get such wide distribution.
-
- Attached is the abstract from the (extensive!) documentation, and
- the shipping manifest. The packing is not ideal, but it's not
- too bad for something done automatically. It took me a bit of
- fiddling to find and uuencode all the binary files in this
- package; look for files that start with an uppercase U. Some
- files were split up into pieces because they were too big.
-
- ***
- IN ALL CASES, look at the README and/or README2 files in
- every directory; they will contain instructions on how to
- recreate the originals.
- ***
-
- IN ADDITION, several files were edited to just turn one or
- two control characters into their printable representation.
- You will have to edit the following files:
- Found 2 control chars in menu/vi_menu
- Line 2 ^F should be CTRL/F
- Line 3 ^B should be CTRL/B
- Found 4 control chars in demo/msg/do_more
- Line 16, ^[ should be ESCAPE (4 times)
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/bury
- Line 15, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/font
- Line 15, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/shape
- Line 15, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/cursor
- Line 14, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/square
- Line 14, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/msg/Makefile
- Line 46, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 2 control chars in demo/sh/c_menu
- Line 23, ^E should be CTRL/E
- Line 24, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/loadfont
- Line 19, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/color
- Line 14, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 1 control char in demo/sh/showfont
- Line 21, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 3 control chars in demo/sh/menu
- Line 41, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Line 81, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Line 102, ^[ should be ESCAPE
- Found 45 control chars in doc/usrman/doc.0
- Line 30, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 134, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 135, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 136, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 137, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 138, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 139, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 140, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 141, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 142, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 143, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 144, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 145, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 146, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
- Line 147, ^G should be CTRL/G (3 times)
-
- In addition, I made the following changes ("fixes") in
- the C source files, turning actual BELL's, e.g.,
- into the \007 equivalent.
- Found 2 control chars in demo/plot/subs.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 2 ESCAPEs INTO \033
- Found 6 control chars in demo/msg/menus.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 6 CTRL/Es INTO \005
- Found 4 control chars in demo/misc/dmgr.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 3 CTRL/Gs INTO \007
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 1 CTRL/H INTO \010
- Found 2 control chars in demo/icon/cut.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 2 CTRL/Es INTO \005
- Found 1 control char in demo/icon/iconmail.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 1 CTRL/G INTO \007
- Found 1 control char in lib/restart.h
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 2 CTRL/\ INTO \034
- Found 1 control char in src/defines.h
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 1 CTRL/E INTO \005
- Found 2 control chars in src/graph_subs.c
- ** I FIXED; TURNED 2 CTRL/H INTO \010 (in a comment)
-