Re: [Update REQ 5696]: Question about WEBOOGL Installation

[Bernhard.Reiter at mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE]

Hello!
Thank You for the answer.

> >What is meant by the netscape 1.1S version ?
> Netscape 1.1S version was only released for SGIs, so you'd have to
> upgrade all the way to Netscape 2.0.

Maybe you should mention that somewhere in your WWW Pages.


> >"mosaic_cmd" as stated seems not to be in weboogl.perl...
[...]
> There's a bunch of variable names in weboogl.perl with "mosaic" in
> them for historical reasons. 

The "mosaic_cmd" idea came from your "Trouble Shooting" Page...


> Hmm. The remote control capability should be there in 1.1N,
[...]
> I think both of your problems are due to the same fundamental cause (the
> system thinks you're using a different browser than the one you're
> using), so try the fixes below before upgrading to 2.0.

You were right. 

With Your suggestions, i tried to track down the problem a little
further. It seems that the versions of netscape(1.1N) and mosaic (2.6)
running on SunOs 5.4 Generic_101945-27 sun4m do not set the right 
process group id. The getpgrp() fkt.call in "to-weboogl.perl"
gives not the right process id of the browers (the browers are
running directly from a bash). This might be a bug in the operating 
system as it work under SunOS 4.1.3. 

I suggest adding a check, with the "ps" command for example, after the
getpgrp(). If it failes, it might be interesting to test for a 
running netscape or mosaic process with the right user id.

Another problem seems to be a great delay which occurs sometime,
after clicking in geomview until netscape starts loading the requested
URL.

Bye,
	Bernhard Reiter