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- From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil - Solbourne Administrator)
- Subject: SUMMARY: SAS under X Window help needed
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.163717.16790@mercury.unt.edu>
- Keywords: X Window UNIX Sun Solbourne
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Reply-To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <1992Jul30.202103.28096@mercury.unt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:37:17 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- My original plea was:
-
- >Hi,
- > I administer a Solbourne system with NCD X terminals and a Solbourne
- >S4000 attached. The Solbourne, in case you don't know is a Sun clone type
- >system, but it comes only with basic MIT X11R4, not OpenWindows. When my
- >users start SAS from an X environment, they see the following error messages
- >stream by:
-
- >> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp
- >> Warning: ... found while parsing 'None<Key>osfUp: sas-cursor-up() '
- >> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown
- >> Warning: ... found while parsing ' None<Key>osfDown: sas-cursor-down() '
- [ hordes of similar messages deleted ]
- >> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate
- >> Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ArmAndActivate()'
- >> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp
- >> Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()'
-
- > My problem is that I can't seem to get SAS to use different keysyms from
- >those listed above. I have tried /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/SAS, and changes
- >galore to my .Xresources files used by xrdb to no avail. They seem to be
- >almost hard coded into SAS!? Is anyone else out there using SAS on a UNIX
- >system without benefit of mwm and the Motif libraries? Any help would be
- >most appreciated.
-
- >Thanks,
- >Marc Puzzled SAS and X Window user/administrator
-
- Many thanks go out to the people who quickly responded with the right answer.
- I am including the first response below, but thanks should also go out to:
- dbl@osf.org (David B. Lewis)
- macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
- richardh@episun.epidem.uwa.edu.au (Richard Hockey)
- exujoel@exu.ericsson.se (Joel Oguete)
- SBYRNE@liverpool.ac.uk (Sue Byrne)
-
- and here's the answer:
- >From: oldenkmp@espresso.boeing.com (P. Oldenkamp 5-4481)
- >Subject: Re: SAS under X Window help needed
- >To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu
- >Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 14:11:33 PDT
- >
- >Hello Marc,
- >
- >I seem to recall that I got the same result initially on one of our systems
- >when we forgot to follow the instructions on the pink alert notes to copy
- >!SASROOT/X11/app-defaults/XKeysymDB to /usr/lib/X11.
- >
- >Paul OldenKamp, Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
-
- Now I'm down to just these few to hunt down and kill:
- > Warning: Overriding earlier translation manager actions.
- > Warning: Previous entry was: !<KeyPress>Help: sas-pf-key("1")
- > Warning: New actions are: sas-pf-key("30")
- > Warning: translation table syntax error: Missing '(' while parsing action sequence
- > Warning: ... found while parsing 'Ctrl<Key>X: sas-toggle-insert() <Key>osfInsert: sas-toggle-insert()'
-
- Big thanks to you Paul,
- Marc
-