A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:
>
> G'day to you, and apologies for not responding sooner.
>
> I am glad to learn from your second message that you got things
> working. Also glad to hear that it all works on Debian. The people
> I know are all using linux (mainly Redhat, Mandrake or Suse).
>
> Just out of curiosity, where did get the system from? Right now
> there are different versions of poplog, along with a variety of
> extras, available from different places. The two main sources are
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
>
> http://www.poplog.org
>
> Unfortunately many of the files at the latter site are about two
> years old.
>
> The latest packages from birmingham have installation scripts that
> automate most of the process. (You can run a script to install poplog
> with motif or one to install without).
Hi Aaron,
I got the 20 MB tarball from Birmingham.I ran the
scripts that you provide but it took me a while to figure out that I
needed the C-shell,not usually on Debian.
It wasn't obvious until I read the script that
install_package needed an arg. On Debian some of the links needed are
made when the motif-clients and termcap-compat packages are added but I
had to make,
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /lib/libtermcap.so
I go into this detail in case other Debian users look
here for help.I can see that startup.psv but still am having trouble
loading it from the command line.I will get there when I figure out how
I want to set my evironment up, I might shift it to /home/agley yet.
I will probably try it on OpenBSD as well when I get a
bit more used to it, perhaps under Linux emulation.
As to why I want to learn programming,mainly to learn to
think for myself again. After many years in the same job even though
interesting I found myself relying on others and buying a computer in
1999 woke me up after I became dissatisfied with Windows and decided to
bite the bullet and install OpenBSD which I found made you think for
yourself, same as Debian.
Why I picked poplog I don't know yet but list processing
attracted me and a bit of lurking around the Clisp community turned me
off them. You shouldn't get too many questions from me, I will be doing
it the hard way,time is no object.
Thanks for the info,
John Duncan
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