Re: patch, installation
Andrew Sullivan (ajsulliv@reply.to)
Fri, 8 May 1998 12:39:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Dennis Wook Shim wrote:
> (e.g. AfterStep-1.4.5.3/afterstep/start/Modules/-\ FTP\ to\ ...)
> My guess was that it was because "patch" didn't recognize the filenames
> with spaces. (although this didn't happen with the first two patches)
> Did I do something wrong here..? (I think it would be great to have some
> howto on patching appropriately..)
No, you didn't do anything wrong. There's a problem in the patch.
> The both steps when without a hitch, but it forgets to create some of the
> configuration files in: ~/GNUstep/Library/Afterstep/
> There is only one directory called "non-configurable" with its default
> desk*/ directories..
>
> With 1.4.0, it created several config files like: autoexec.*bpp, pager,
> wharf, start/, etc...
Gone. The 1.4.5.x series allows you to use the system-wide defaults for
everything if you like; that's more efficient, because every user of AS on
the system doesn't need a complete ~/G/L/A directory structure. You can,
however, copy _any_ of the default dirs/files (they default to
/usr/share/afterstep) to your local ~/G/L/A/ directories, and customize
them there.
> I tried just movinge the files over from my old AS 1.4 directory.. but
> that didn't work..(pager didn't show up, and sometimes.. afterstep just
> hung)
Not everything is in exactly the same place from 1.4 to 1.4.5.x, so the
directories can't just be re-used. For instance, the format of WinList
has changed.
A.
Andrew Sullivan
asullivan@sprint.ca
ajsulliv@mcmaster.ca
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