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# Copyright (c) 1987 Bellcore
# All Rights Reserved
# Permission is granted to copy or use this program, EXCEPT that it
# may not be sold for profit, the copyright notice must be reproduced
# on copies, and credit should be given to Bellcore where it is due.
# BELLCORE MAKES NO WARRANTY AND ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY FOR THIS PROGRAM.
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Welcome to MGR. MGR is an network transparent window system for Unix. This
source contains the SUN version. MGR has been ported to the Macintosh, and to
system V based unix machines. Look at the first few pages of
doc/usrman/usrman.out for a more detailed desciption of MGR.
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Directory contents:
Makefile Master makefile
README This file
demo Mgr demo programs
doc man pages and user's quide
font-16 16-bit aligned fonts (for sun2's and color suns)
font-32 32-bit aligned fonts (for monochrome sun 3's)
icon some sample icons
lib C library interface
menu some sample menus
misc Sample startup files, misc. useful commands.
src MGR source
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Installation notes:
* MGR has 2 built-in path names; one to find fonts, the other to find icons.
Both are set with INSROOT in the top level makefile, but may be
over-ridden on the command line.
* "make" builds mgr and all the demos and utilities. "make install", when
run as root, put everything into the proper place.
* MGR needs to run as root in order to "chown" your tty's. Otherwise
commands like "mesg" and "biff" don't work -- they require you own
your tty, and the mgr ipc stuff breaks.
* Some old versions of make (pre release 3.0) don't work on multi-level
makefiles. In such cases, run all of the sub makefiles by hand,
starting at the bottom. Alternately you can use GNU-make from the
Free Software Foundation (You need to remove the "#include <sys/types.h>"
and move "#include <sys/param.h>" to be the 1'st include file) if gnu-make
won't compile.
* I've installed this release on the following SUNS:
sun 2/120 running release 1.1
sun 2/50 running release 2.3
sun 3/50 3/75, 3/160, 3/260, 3/110, 3/60c running releases 3.0 to 4.0.
This release used to work on the roadrunner (386 based SUN), but the
C compiler dumps core on our current RR release. Also on the 386, the
internal format of bitmaps is different: you need to bit-swap every
data byte of the fonts and icons.
* To make and install MGR, become root and type:
make INSROOT=<rootdir> TARGET=<which_mgr> install
where <rootdir> is MGR's root directory, usually /usr/mgr and
<which_mgr> specifies the version of mgr you want. Common values for
<which_mgr> are:
prod production version - debugging code omitted.
color color version
sun2 sun2 version
mgr default version
src/makefile has a complete list of $TARGET's
Some of the demos don't work in color.
* To make MGR's home directory in one place, then install it in a different
place (presumably in anticipation of future symbolic links), do a
make INSROOT=<mgr_looks_here>
followed by a
make INSROOT=<mgr_gets_put_here> install
* Makefile Bugs
When making the 'color' or other pixrect based versions of mgr (Normally
MGR doesn't use pixrect; it has its own bitblit code) you need to add
OTHERLIB=-lpixrect to the make command line.
* MGR bugs.
- The font format depends upon the underlying bitblit implementation,
which is why 2 versions of the fonts are needed. This should be fixed
in the future, with the introduction of a more portable font format.
Its currently not possible for the monochrome and color versions of
MGR to share the same directory, as they each need a different font
format.
- The SUN color version of MGR is kludgy, due in part to the semantics
of Sun's pixrect library. If I ever get around to writing COLOR bitblit
code, the color versions should go 2x faster.
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* When trying to run MGR, if you get:
- can't find the screen
make sure you have a /dev/bwtwo0, otherwise
cd to /dev, and type "MAKEDEV bwtwo0" as root
- can't get a ptty
make sure all of /dev/[tp]ty[pq]? are owned by root, mode 666
and all programs referenced with the "shell" option in the startup
file exist and are executable
- none but the default font, make sure MGR is looking in the right place.
type "mgr -V" to find out where mgr is looking.
- completely hung (not even the mouse track moves)
login to your sun from another terminal (or rlogin) and kill the
mgr process.
"mgr -V" provides more configuration information than "mgr -v"
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Acknowlegements:
Many thanks to Mike Bianchi, who spent many hours fixing little bugs
and helping to get all of this stuff into a coherent package.
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Stephen A. Uhler
Bell Communications Research
435 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
July, 7 1988 10, 1987
Email addresses:
bellcore!sau
sau@bellcore.com
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Please mail any bugs or comments to:
mgr@bellcore.com or bellcore!mgr