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- From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: aXe 3.0.1
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.043509.159822@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 04:35:09 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 45
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- In article <jhardin.715460987@stat.tamu.edu>, jhardin@stat.tamu.edu (James Hardin) writes:
- >
- > Well, I apologize. Apparently I am too paranoid for my own good.
- >Usually, when I obtain a package, I make it in a temp directory
- >and run it there (not as root) to make sur eit works before I install
- >it. I thought that the only thing I needed to take care of was to
- >copy the Axe.ad to the /.../app-defaults directory and I would be
- >able to run it. I asked a lot of questions when it did not work
- >for me. Apparently, there are others like me, so ... All I had
- >to do was to make install after the make and the program ran fine.
- >It depended not only on the Axe.ad file, but also on all of the .help
- >files that are included with the package. So, if you were having
- >the same trouble I did with aXe segmentation faults upon invocation,
- >this may be the answer.
-
- this is odd, since I have mine on a network machine, and the net does
- not have these help files (my office machine does). It works on both.
-
- If someone else is still having trouble with this nifty little editor,
- especially with core dumps on closing, try this fix that the author gave
- to me to get it up on my linux machine at home. I don't know why it
- worked, but it sure is stable now:
-
- Subject: Re: aXe-3.0.1
- Reply-To: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk
-
- > If you can come up with a fix for linux, I'd love to hear about it.
-
- This is just an empirical shot in the dark, but it might be worth a try.
-
- In Destroy in FileNom.c try moving the line
-
- XtDestroyWidget(Child(fnw,filename));
-
- to the top of the list of similar calls.
-
-
- --
- Sincerely,
-
- David L. Johnson ID: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 211
- Department of Mathematics
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