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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: PTOLEMY
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:30:11 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
- Lines: 60
- Message-ID: <1ii0c3INN6ue@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1993Jan8.013741.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan8.013741.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> eemn@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Brett Ninness) writes:
- >I need a little help in getting Ptolemy 0,4 going on
- >a personal DECstation 5000. I've followed the installation
- >instructions and have ended up with a whole buncch of executables.
- >When I type "pigi" to try it out I get an error message that the
- >command "vem" can't be found. When I look around for vem I
- >find that unpacking the tar files has left me with the following
- >
- >/users/ptolemy/bin.mips/vem@ -> ../octtools/bin.mips/vem
- >
- >and unfortunaly ../octtools/bin.mips/vem doesn't exist.
-
- You can join the "ptolemy-hackers" mailing list for help with Ptolemy
- problems. Write to ptolemy-hackers-request@ohm.berkeley.edu to be
- added. Submit messages to ptolemy-hackers@ohm.berkeley.edu (please
- use the -request address for requests to be added or deleted, since
- 100-odd people will otherwise get your message).
-
- Did you retrieve the pt-0.4.mips.tar.Z file? You cannot build vem
- from source, because source is not included for it. You need to
- get the binary.
-
- (It is possible to get source for Vem and the rest of the Oct Tools
- system from Berkeley's Industrial Liason Program office, but the
- source isn't freely redistributable at this point: you need to sign
- a license. Sorry, but it's not our program to give away).
-
- >If anyone does have the time, then maybe they could also help me with
- >the following
- >
- >1. An example of what the added line to the .rhosts file should
- >look like.
-
- vem uses rsh to talk to RPC programs, so you need to make sure that
- you have permission to do rsh to "talk to yourself". (I think that
- this should work by default, but it doesn't). Try the following test:
-
- rsh `hostname` echo hello
-
- If it prints "hello", you're set up correctly and do not need to mess
- with .rhosts. If it prints "Permission denied", add the name of your
- host (whatever "hostname" prints) to your .rhosts file.
-
- >2. What is the Almagest ?
-
- The Almagest was the name of Ptolemy's principal astronomical work.
- It is also the name of the Ptolemy manual. Cute, huh? :-)
-
- >3. How do you print something out from the documentation. Do you go
- >to one of the documentation subdirectories and type make ?
-
- Yes, you can also type "make preview" to run the previewer. This assumes
- you have ditroff and xditview. If you don't, you can obtain the Gnu
- groff program.
-
-
-
-
- --
- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
-