SUN Transcript

[John Richardson]

In article <720 at brazos.Rice.edu> apctrc!zjat02 at uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 92, message 2 of 18
>
>Installables HAVE to go in
>/usr/tran/`arch`/{bin,lib}.  You can't change this without symlinks.
>Installation changes even your edits back.
>
>Given the move to /share for sharing things, I am surprised that they
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
>force this on you.  I had the binaries installed in /usr/local/bin before
>and made a symlink to fix them back.  Some of the lib files are
>architecture dependent, but I would think that the fonts would be
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>sharable.  (I think they are, but may change in the future).
 ^^^^^^^^
>

It was very un-Sun-like the way Transcript's software architecture is set
up.

When I was installing Transcript, I compared the Sun3 and Sun4 fonts and
they were identical EXCEPT for what appeared to be a magic number.
Consequently, I ended up installing both versions, although it seems like
a waste of space.  At that point, I was frustrated from trying to work
around the first issue, and didn't feel like experimenting to find out
whether that small difference was significant or not.

/usr/tran/sparc/lib/troff.font/Courier/ftB:	sparc executable
/usr/tran/mc68020/lib/troff.font/Courier/ftB:	mc68020 executable
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