I installed the poplog demo last night and was most impressed with the speed
of the thing running on my little 486 (ok it does have 16megs of memory, but
still). Driving the console display was significantly faster than either a
normal terminal or X11.
There were 2 things I wanted to bring to peoples attention:
1) It worked faultlessly when started using the supplied script from the tcsh
shell, but when started from the bash shell something was amiss. What I did
was to alias ved to 'poplog ved ', because that seemed to best way to start
ved from the command line without have to type pop11 and then ved. When
this was done from the bash shell the keymappings in ved were all wrong,
however it worked fine from the tcsh shell.
2) The default setup doesn't search the /lib/proto directory when looking for
loadable libraries. This is important if you want to load the 'go' or
'objectclass' libraries. What I did was to create a file in $syspop called
init.p (if you haven't already got one), and add the line:
popuseslist <> [ '$usepop/pop/lib/proto/' ] -> popuseslist;
into it. Another way to achieve the same effect is to change the entry for
the environment variable that is set in the popenv and popenv.sh files in
the $usepop/pop/com/ directory.
Richard
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