textcan.ps for the SGI, CyberSpace throws SGI into a Black HoLe

Pete Delaney pete at relay.NixCTC.DE
Fri Apr 21 04:56:47 AEST 1989


	 Using NeWS on the SGI is interesting.  First to get the textcan
code to start working I had to add a dictionary to the Reshape callback
proceedure even though Sun is assuming that there should have been space
in the class dictionary.  I looked in the XSIGHT documentation but couldn't
find anything about such fundamential change.  Anyone know what been changed? 


	Then I ran into a Black Hole, NO NeWS Server Source.  Of course
with the X11/R3 server I can run the server core into xdbx and do 
something reasonable, but with the NeWS server I'm ..., well you know...


The Server crashed with what obviously is a segment violation after displaying
the StructItem for the Stack and the dialog-item TextStructItem.  The 
details left on the floor are very informative :)
==============================================================================
Apr 19 23:50:59 ctc2 Kick off startup script
Apr 19 23:50:59 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: Done user.ps
Apr 19 23:50:59 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: NeWS/AdobeMap.ps loading...
Apr 19 23:51:00 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: Starting server
Apr 19 23:51:00 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: Initialization files loaded!
Apr 19 23:51:00 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: Starting root eventmgr
Apr 19 23:52:00 ctc2 grcond[1378]: CIO: NeWS: segmentation violation signal rece
ived
Apr 19 23:52:00 ctc2 grcond[1378]: Child process /bin/news_server terminated wit
h status 6
Apr 19 23:57:23 ctc2 grcond[1407]: In limbo
Apr 19 23:57:25 ctc2 grcond[1407]: Alive
Apr 19 23:57:25 ctc2 grcond[1407]: CIO: ****************************************
*******************************

Is there anything I can do, like try to provide the ADB registers from the
core?  

I also tried the browser on the Silicon Graphics.  The text is chopped up.
I tried a few other fonts and it didn't help.  I think I swa this before
but I can recall wat it was.  Any suggestions?

How is the X11/News server going for the SGI?


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