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Re: rman
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: wehmann at fnal dot gov, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: rman
- References: <18637.24065.718000.51107@numi-wehmann.fnal.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, wehmann@fnal.gov wrote:
In my installation of Cygwin
rman is found at
bash-3.2$ which rman
/usr/X11R6/bin/rman
The version is
bash-3.2$ rman -v
PolyglotMan v3.0.8+X.Org
and it comes with the following tar file
bash-3.2$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Temporary/downloads/cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin/release/x11/xorg-x11-bin
bash-3.2$ ls
xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2
bash-3.2$ tar -jtf xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2 usr/X11R6/bin/rman.exe
usr/X11R6/bin/rman.exe
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I make several observations:
1) The latest version at
http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/
is 3.2
"latest" for a SourceForge program can be interesting. That's from 2005.
What's on SourceForge lacks most of the fixes originally made in XFree86.
There was a thread on xorg a few years ago, dealing with rman 3.2, which
if I recall properly didn't go anywhere toward addressing the issues in
rman. (I'd made some additional fixes in rman, which its inactive
developer didn't follow up on).
2) I don't see that rman needs an X-server, so it is puzzling why it
is found where it is.
It's there simply because the program was useful for XFree86, and the
original version didn't generate very useful html. (iirc, about 10% of
the resulting files were too badly mangled to read).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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