Number: 1522

Date: 27-Jun-84 14':47':39

Submitter: Sannella.PA

Source: Sannella.PA

Subject: Track down and purge all PARC-isms from release sysouts

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Date': 22 Jun 84 10':45 PDT'
From': Wogulis.pasa'
Subject': [VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA': another parc-ism in distributed fugue 6]'
To': Sannella.PA'
cc': Wogulis.pasa'
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Should this be specified in an INIT file and not in the Sysout?'
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Jim'
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From': VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA'
Subject': another parc-ism in distributed fugue 6'
To': 1100support.PA'
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In playing with TEDIT (with PUPTRACEFLG=T ) I saw efforts to find host'
PHYLUM (which was not distributed with our system!).'
I finally traced it to the value of STARFONTDIRECTORIES ='
({PHYLUM}<STARFONTS>)'
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Slightly related to this': TEDITMENU offers a choice of fonts which includes'
CREAM, for which I have never seen any strike files (of course, I don''t '
have a printer for any of them, except as screen dumps).'
	Darrel'
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Date': 22 Jun 84 11':46 PDT'
From': Sannella.pa'
Subject': Re': [VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA': another parc-ism in distributed fugue 6]'
In-reply-to': Wogulis.pasa''s message of 22 Jun 84 10':45 PDT'
To': Wogulis.pasa'
cc': Sannella.PA'
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(1)  Variables such as STARFONTDIRECTORIES are (and should be) specified in INIT files.  Up here, the local INIT files set these variables to the local values.  When a loadup is made, it is necessary to set some of these variables to local PARC values, so the loadup knows where to find font files, for instance, but there is a function ENDLOADUP which should smash all of these variables back to non-PARC values (like {DSK}).  As it happens, STARFONTDIRECTORIES is not getting smashed.  This is also true in Carol.  This is not a serious problem, because the user should always set all of these variables in their INIT files anyways.'
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(2)  There is an AR to remove Cream from the list of Tedit fonts, or make the default list user-modifyable.'
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Edit-Date: 27-Jun-84 14':45':50

Attn: Sannella

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System: Other Software

Subsystem: Release Procedure

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Difficulty: Moderate

Frequency: Everytime

Impact: Annoying

Priority: Perhaps

Status: Open

Problem Type: Bug

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