http://www.sgi.com/tech/relnotes/desktop_tools.html (Silicon Surf Promotional CD, 01/1995)4 Known Problems and Workarounds
- 1 - 1. Introduction The Desktop Tools image includes various desktop tools. Note: Packaged with your software is a separate sheet that contains the Software License Agreement. This software is provided to you solely under the terms and conditions of the Software License Agreement. Please take a few moments to review the Agreement. The desktop tools include the following components: jot Jot is a display-oriented cut-and-paste style ASCII text editor tuned to run on Silicon Graphics machines. Jot is written using pure Graphics Library code, and hence will not work on a generic X terminal, and it ignores the X resources. Jot (which was originally called "zip"), is tuned to run well on large files, and can edit arbitrary binary files. mailbox To notify you of incoming mail. notepad Write down notes. iconsmith For building Workspace icons. twilight Makes a twilight background on the screen. tape_backup A backup tool. This document contains the following chapters: 1. Introduction 2. Installation Information 3. Changes and Additions 4. Bug Fixes 5. Known Problems and Workarounds 6. Documentation Errors 1.1 Release_Identification_Information Following is the release identification information for desktop_tools: Software Product Desktop Tools 5.2 Product Code System Software Requirements IRIX 5.2 - 2 - 1.2 Online_Release_Notes Version After you install the online release notes for a product (the relnotes subsystem), you can view the release notes on your screen. Note: You can read the online release notes for most products before installing the software. Refer to the booklet in your CD-ROM case for more information. If you have a graphics system, select ``Release Notes'' from the Tools submenu of the Toolchest. This displays the grelnotes(1) graphical browser for the online release notes. Refer to the grelnotes(1) man page for information on options to this command. If you do not have a graphics system, you can use the relnotes command. Refer to the relnotes(1) man page for accessing the online release notes. 1.3 Product_Support Silicon Graphics, Inc., provides a comprehensive product support maintenance program for its products. If you are in the U.S. or Canada and would like support for your Silicon Graphics-supported products, contact the Technical Assistance Center at (800)800-4SGI. If you are outside these areas, contact the Silicon Graphics subsidiary or authorized distributor in your country. - 1 - 2. Installation_Information This chapter lists supplemental information to the IRIS Software Installation Guide. The information listed here is product- and release-specific; use it with the Installation Guide to install this product. 2.1 desktop_tools_Subsystems desktop_tools includes these subsystems: desktop_tools.books.Utilities Insight documentation on these and other desktop tools. desktop_tools.man.tools Manual pages for tools in this image. desktop_tools.man.relnotes These release notes. desktop_tools.sw.tape_backup The tape backup tool. desktop_tools.sw.tools All other tools specified in the introduction. 2.2 desktop_tools_Subsystem_Disk_Space_Requirements This section lists the subsystems (and their sizes) of desktop_tools. If you are installing this product for the first time, the subsystems marked ``default'' are the ones that are installed if you use the ``go'' menu item. To install a different set of subsystems, use the ``install,'' ``remove,'' ``keep,'' and ``step'' commands in inst to customize the list of subsystems to be installed, then select the ``go'' menu item. Note: The listed subsystem sizes are approximate. Refer to the IRIS Software Installation Guide for information on finding exact sizes. Subsystem Name Subsystem Size (512-byte blocks) desktop_tools.books.Utilities (default) 840 desktop_tools.man.relnotes (default) 10 desktop_tools.man.tools (default) 76 - 2 - desktop_tools.sw.tape_backup (default) 938 desktop_tools.sw.tools (default) 5942 2.3 Installation_Method All of the subsystems for desktop_tools can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the IRIS Software Installation Guide for complete installation instructions. - 1 - 3. Changes_and_Additions 3.1 Jot Jot is now a modified version of zip, so there are many changes between this version and the last. Some of the new features are listed below: o Can edit binary files. o Can edit large files. o Word-wrap and non-word-wrap modes. o Electric-C mode for editing C and C++ files. o More extensive searching. o Infinite Undo and Redo. o Macros. o Filters. o Marks. o A reopen list of recently edited files. o Ctags support. o Split windows support. - 1 - 4. Known_Problems_and_Workarounds o In Jot, line numbers only work correctly for files with fewer than 100000 lines. o When you run "jot -M" over a network on a remote file, sometimes jot just dies and goes away with no warning. o twilight will not run under the Indigo Magic Desktop if icons are on the background. o In iconsmith, if you select an endpoint and move it, and then press control to add a new endpoint, you often get a point that is not an endpoint, but is somewhere in the middle. - 1 - 5. Documentation_Errors o There are no known documentation errors at this time.