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- From: ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Wavefront bombs under Irix4.05
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.120026.12085@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:00:26 GMT
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- In <BtzCuF.Lw5@news.larc.nasa.gov>, dan@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (Dan O'Brien)
- writes:
- > Will the font changes break anything?
- I don't think that you should mix files from different releases, regardless
- of which problems you have encountered. We have not tested such combinations
- of files, and we will have a hard time reproducing any problems caused by
- such file mixing. If you are concerned about particular programs, such as
- Wavefront programs, you should contact people at Wavefront, and ask them about
- running their programs under IRIX 4.0.5. They probably had an early access to
- IRIX 4.0.5, and they will probably be able to tell you whether you need new
- releases of their programs. You may just need to get new versions of their
- programs that run under IRIX 4.0.5. If they have found some problem in IRIX
- 4.0.5, they should report that problem to us, and we will do everything we can
- to fix it as soon as possible.
-
- If you have several SGI machines, you could upgrade one of them to IRIX 4.0.5,
- and check that the programs you need will run under the new release, before
- you install that release on your other machines. The IRIS Font Manager
- (libfm) is machine independent, so the programs that use that font manager
- will probably behave the same way on different types of SGI machines. If you
- encounter some serious problems that prevent you from running important
- programs, you should reinstall a previous release, and use that release until
- those problems are solved. Make sure that you enter the command:
-
- set neweroverride on
-
- on a prompt from the program inst (Inst>). That will allow you to install
- versions of subsystems that are older than the installed subsystems.
-
- When you copy or move system files, instead of installing them, the
- installation history database on your machine is not updated. When later on
- you remove subsystems or install new version of those subsystems, the system
- files you put on your machine will probably not be removed or replaced.
- Those files may cause serious problems when you try to install a new release
- of the IRIX operating system. Problems which we will probably not be able to
- reproduce on our machines, because they will not have the files you put on
- your machine.
-
- Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
-