[Closed REQ 5313]: (Fwd) os for geomview

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

Hello Adam,
 I'm glad you're interested in Geomview. It's guaranteed to work
properly under SunOS. Many people have had problems trying to get it
to run under Solaris, even though theoretically it should work. So if
you have a choice, SunOS will make your life easier for dealing with
Geomview. For example, here's the answer to a recent question about
Solaris problems:

  >The problem you are experiencing might be because you are running
  >Solaris (SunOS 5.2) instead of SunOS 4.1.3 which is what the sun4
  >version of Geomview was compiled under. Theoretically sun4 binaries
  >should work in compatibility mode under Solaris but in practice
  >they sometimes don't. You could either grab the source code from
  >ftp.geom.umn.edu (/pub/software/geomview/geomview-1.5.0-src.tar.Z)
  >and try compiling it for yourself under Solaris, or you could wait
  >for us to come out with a Solaris distribution. Also, if you are
  >using OpenWindows, you might want to try the OpenWindows patch and
  >see if that fixes it:
  >(/pub/software/geomview/geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar.Z). That bad
  >system call might be in the X11 libraries.

Hope this helps,

Tamara Munzner		The Geometry Center	     ((555) 555-5555
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