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From: "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
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To: "Alex.Boisvert" <boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA>
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Subject: Re: Applixware hangs
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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Alex.Boisvert wrote:

> 
> Hello hackers -
> 
> I bought (RedHat's) Applixware application suite a month ago and I still 
> can't use it.
> 
> Here's the problem description:
> 
> 1-Mount the applix cdrom
> 2-Run /cdrom/unpacked/applix  to start the application
> 3-Wait about 20 seconds to load from CDROM
> 4-A window pops without any content.
> 5-FreeBSD freezes to death.  (No telnet, no ping, nothing, no CTRL-ALT-DEL)
> 
> Here's what I tried:
> 
> 1- FreeBSD 2.2 ALPHA, 
>    or FreeBSD 2.2.1 "stock kernel"
> 2- root / non-root (regular user)
> 3- from cdrom / directly off hard disk
> 4- Linux emulation is ON, I can run Linux DOOM and others.
> 5- Tried both linuxlib-2.3 and linuxlib-2.4
> 6- XFree 3.2 and XFree 3.1.x (S3 Server and SVGA Server, 8 ppt or 16 ppt)
> 7- On the same system, running RedHat Linux, Applixware runs fine...
> 
> ANYBODY can help?  Suggestions?
> 
> Alex .
> 
Hello,

The system hangs due to the libc version in the /compat/linux/lib

Solution: change to a set of new libc (from the redhat cdrom) by
doing a:

tar cf - lib* | tar --unlink -xvf - -C /compat/linux/lib
on the /lib and /usr/lib directory in the redhat cdrom.

Should work.


By the way, Is there a way to make applix words accept accent characters?

I program my X server to accept accent chars as:

' + a -> á  (a acute)
' + e -> é  (e acute)
^ + e -> ê  (e circumflex).... and so on.


Sergio Lenzi.

Unix consult.