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- INSTALLING XMS, THE X-BASED MANDELSPAWN CLIENT
-
- Xms itself should build and install using the normal Imake procedure
- (e.g., by running xmkmf, make depend, and make). You are strongly
- encouraged to use Imake, but if you can't for some reason, then just
- copy the file noImakefile to Makefile and edit it as necessary.
-
- You should create a file "/usr/local/etc/mslaves" containing the
- hostnames of all the machines running computation servers (possibly
- including the local host), one per line. The file "dot-mslaves" is a
- sample file containing made-up hostnames.
-
- If you are installing MandelSpawn for personal use only, use
- ".mslaves" in your home directory instead of "/usr/local/etc/mslaves".
- In this case you may also want to create a ".enslave" file for the
- "enslave" script, and possibly a ".rhostile" file containing
- hostname-username pairs not present in ".rhosts". You can use the
- supplied file "dot-enslave" as a model for your ".enslave" file.
-
- See ../mslaved-0.06/INSTALL for information about installing the
- computation server.
-
-
- PORTABILITY NOTES TO MACH USERS:
-
- If you are running Mach/i386 you may have a broken floor() library
- function, causing incorrect colour interpolation. A workaround can be
- enabled by defining the symbol BROKEN_FLOOR when compiling Mama.c.
-
- You may also need to include the option "-chunk_height 16" when
- running MandelSpawn with iterations counts larger than 256 because of
- limits on UDP message size.
-
- The X-based client program is now called "xms", not "ms", so now it
- won't clash with the "mach status" command until someone makes an X
- version of that :-)
-
-
- PORTABILITY NOTES TO SONY USERS:
-
- Sony's X11R4 server for the NWS-1510 with a 4-bit greyscale display
- has a bug that causes it to crash when running MandelSpawn. If you
- have this problem, try giving MandelSpawn the workaround option
- "-sony". This workaround is disabled by default because it may have
- the side effect of causing certain areas to be drawn incorrectly,
- especially in partly obscured windows.
-
-
- PORTABILITY NOTES TO IBM RS/6000 USERS:
-
- There have been some difficulties in getting xms to work properly IBM
- RS/6000 workstations. It seems to behave differently depending on
- whether backing store is enabled in the X server or not, but in
- neither case does it work fully. Any hints are appreciated.
- The computation server and batch-mode clients do appear to work on
- the RS/6000.
-
-
- PORTABILITY NOTES TO SPARCstation USERS:
-
- When installing xms on a Sun SPARCstation IPC with OpenWindows,
- the following problems were noticed:
-
- - There is no xmkmf or imake, so the noImakefile must be used.
- - There is no Xaw library. Refer to the noImakefile for a workaround.
- - There was a problem with getting keyboard focus, but that should
- be fixed now.
-