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Re: rman


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What's on SourceForge lacks most of the fixes originally made in XFree86.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).


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