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000078_icon-group-sender _Fri Apr 12 22:16:06 1996.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 07:14:34 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:16:06 -0600
From: kjs@thelair.zynet.com (Kragen Javier Sittler aka xentrac)
Message-Id: <4kn9q6$72e@thelair.zynet.com>
Organization: Zynet Southwest
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Icon without icons
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: O
I read the old Icon book; it impressed the heck out of me.
I read the FAQ. It was very interesting.
But I still wasn't quite interested enough in Icon to grab it and (I
assumed) compile it.
More recently, I started using noweb. Noweb has a bad version written
in awk and a good version written in Icon. This is very sensible.
It is also sensible that if you want to actually *use* noweb, you
should get Icon instead of suffering under awk.
I read the FAQ again. I studied the FTP site. I found binaries. I
downloaded binaries. I ran Setup.
A little later, I tried to run one of the (non-graphics) demo
programs. (I think that's what I tried to run; I may have just been
checking to see if iconx worked.)
That's when I found out that Icon wanted libXpm to run.
This is quite reasonable if you're on a system with graphics. But,
you see, zynet is hundreds of miles away from my home, and I doubt I
will ever run an X client from there again. I just want Icon for text
processing, something it's phenomenally good at.
But it won't run without Xpm.
I read the FAQ again. Apparently, I'm the first person ever to have
this problem.
Am I on my own? Need I sort through the source to figure out how to
compile an Icon without icons or buttons? Or is there someone else
out there who has done the same thing as I?
I'm *capable* of sorting through source, but it's really something I'd
prefer not to have to do. I expect it will take a few hours, with my
poor code-reading skills. (I often get lost reading others' code; I
have a hard time understanding the grand scheme of things. Maybe this
has to do with the poor quality of the code I've been reading,
though.)
I'd expect this to be a FAQ. But the newsgroup doesn't get much
traffic. Maybe I should join the mailing list.
But geez, I don't even expect to write any Icon code! I just want to
USE the sucker.
Alas.
--
Peace
Kragen