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In article <1993Jan8.013741.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> eemn@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Brett Ninness) writes:
>I need a little help in getting Ptolemy 0,4  going on 
>a personal DECstation 5000.  I've followed the installation
>instructions and have ended up with a whole buncch of executables.
>When I type "pigi" to try it out I get an error message that the 
>command "vem" can't be found.  When I look around for vem I 
>find that unpacking the tar files has left me with the following
>
>/users/ptolemy/bin.mips/vem@ -> ../octtools/bin.mips/vem
>
>and unfortunaly ../octtools/bin.mips/vem doesn't exist.

You can join the "ptolemy-hackers" mailing list for help with Ptolemy
problems.  Write to ptolemy-hackers-request@ohm.berkeley.edu to be
added.  Submit messages to ptolemy-hackers@ohm.berkeley.edu (please
use the -request address for requests to be added or deleted, since
100-odd people will otherwise get your message).

Did you retrieve the pt-0.4.mips.tar.Z file?  You cannot build vem
from source, because source is not included for it.  You need to
get the binary.

(It is possible to get source for Vem and the rest of the Oct Tools
system from Berkeley's Industrial Liason Program office, but the
source isn't freely redistributable at this point: you need to sign
a license.  Sorry, but it's not our program to give away).

>If anyone does have the time, then maybe they could also help me with
>the following
>
>1. An example of what the added line to the .rhosts file should
>look like.

vem uses rsh to talk to RPC programs, so you need to make sure that
you have permission to do rsh to "talk to yourself".  (I think that
this should work by default, but it doesn't).  Try the following test:

rsh `hostname` echo hello

If it prints "hello", you're set up correctly and do not need to mess
with .rhosts.  If it prints "Permission denied", add the name of your
host (whatever "hostname" prints) to your .rhosts file.

>2.  What is the Almagest ?

The Almagest was the name of Ptolemy's principal astronomical work.
It is also the name of the Ptolemy manual.  Cute, huh? :-)

>3.  How do you print something out from the documentation.  Do you go 
>to one of the documentation subdirectories and type make ?

Yes, you can also type "make preview" to run the previewer.  This assumes
you have ditroff and xditview.  If you don't, you can obtain the Gnu
groff program.




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Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu