On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> All,
>
> Some problems have arisen with the Starlink RedHat 9.0 CD distribution.
>
> 1. Mozilla
>
> I added Mozilla as a browser to HTX, but due to a bug in Mozilla, when
> issuing the command
>
> % showme sun212 (say)
>
> the url that appears in Mozilla is
>
> file:///star/docs/sun212.htx/sun212.html%23xref_
>
> which should be
>
> file:///star/docs/sun212.htx/sun212.html#xref_
>
> so the # gets mapped to %23. You can start Mozilla from the command line and
> get the same effect,
>
> % mozilla /star/docs/sun212.htx/sun212.html#xref_
>
> The fix is to add explicitly the file:// before the path.
>
> mozilla file:///star/docs/sun212.htx/sun212.html#xref_
>
> Note, the new Netscape 7.1 does the same thing.
I expect it would be possible to make a fix to showme to
work around this. I am supposed to be responsible for HTX, so I
guess that's my job chiz chiz. I've always found the scripts a bit
confusing in HTX, so I might not be able to supply such a fix instantly,
but let me know if you want me to try to do it.
> 2. The Netscape browser is hard wired into some other packages (ccdwww,
> say). Two what extent is the netscape command used in our packages? RedHat
> 9.0 now uses Mozilla by default on new installations and Netscape 4.x does
> not come with RedHat 9.0. I could distribute the RedHat 7.3 Netscape on the
> CD.
The ccdwww script looks to me like it caters for a variety of browsers,
(well, mosaic and netscape), just not mozilla. I expect I could add
mozilla support quite easily if you want. Let me know if you would
like an amended ccdpack.tar.Z.
> 3. /star symbolic link dose appear to be needed for some of our
> applications, in particular demos and tests (gaia and ccdpack demos for
> example). I will be stating in sun212 that /star it is required and that the
I don't believe that's the case for CCDPACK - though my beliefs could
be wrong of course. Please tell me exactly what goes wrong if you
install CCDPACK to a non-/star directory and attempt to run one of
the demo scripts ccdexercise, setexercise, wcsexercise.
> installation should be done to /star (unless there are major complaints). I
> will update the quick_install script to default to creating and installing
> to /star.
>
> 4. Which packages export the test/demo data in the runsets? ccdexercise
> dose not appear to run from the runsets, but runs from /stardev and /star
> where the sources are present, ask Dave G. about the problem.
don't understand the question (e.g. what is a runset?)
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Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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