The manual pages with the section 6 suffix are for recreational and
educational programs normally found in the directory ////uuuussssrrrr////ggggaaaammmmeeeessss; however,
Silicon Graphics currently does not ship any such programs, so this
directory does not exist.
The manual pages with the suffix 6D are the demonstration programs found
in the directory ////uuuussssrrrr////ddddeeeemmmmoooossss////GGGGeeeennnneeeerrrraaaallll____DDDDeeeemmmmoooossss,,,, ////uuuussssrrrr////ddddeeeemmmmoooossss////OOOO2222 or
////uuuussssrrrr////ddddeeeemmmmoooossss////OOOOCCCCTTTTAAAANNNNEEEE Beginning with the 6.3 release of IRIX, these demos can
be accessed from several mechanisms:
- from a web-based interface, which can be started using the toolchest
Find; Demos menu option
- from the system iconcatalog, which can be started using the toolchest
Find; Iconcatalog; Demos
- from buttonfly (/usr/demos/buttonfly)
- and directly from the directories /usr/demos/General_Demos,
/usr/demos/O2 and /usr/demos/OCTANE
Both buttonfly and the directory noted above can be accessed using the
Find; File QuickFind menu option or Selected; File QuickFind menu option
available from the system toolchest
The availability of these programs and the data they use will vary from
system to system and from release to release.
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The following error message (or something similiar) may appear when
exiting out of the demos improperly:
XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"localhost:0.0" after 44 requests (44 known processed) with 0 events
remaining.
Ignore this error message. The system has not been affected in any way.
The proper way to exit out of demos is by :
1) typing the ESC key
or
2) clicking on the right mouse button and selecting Exit