Re: mgr, vstafs

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@convex.com> writes:]

>I got MGR built, but when I run it, all I get is a screen full of vertical
>blue and green bars, with the top third or so sprinkled with red dots. Being
>completely clueless about video, I assume this is some sort of video card
>configuration problem. Any hints on where I should go from here?

Unlikely to be a video card thing; MGR uses a pretty conservative video
mode. This sounds rather more like MGR couldn't attach to the mouse server.

>BTW, before I noticed that you had tweaked the MGR distribution to account for
>the long filenames, I thought maybe I was supposed to build it in a vstafs.
>Untarring the archive made vstafs choke because the first file is ".". Does
>vstafs not deal well with "."? When I tried things like
> cp /vsta/boot/boot.lst .
>they failed as well.

vstafs doesn't care about '.'. Do a "stat ." and see what kind of object
your CWD is.

                                                Andy
Received on Mon Jan 15 10:13:16 1996