Re: feature loss in new version of ircombine

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William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:13:14 -0600 (CST)

> Earlier, ircombine would return an X error when -destination active was used
> on a remote display.

It's not a remote display. Its a second display (ie. :0.1). And if it
was reporting a silent error beofre, I didn't both to check because it
performed exactly as I expected it should.

> The decision was made to just make illegal the
> combination of -destination active and -target.

Without thinking about it more, I'm not sure if should be illegal for
remote displays, but not second displays. Either way, I hope this
functionality will be restored.

> Could you send me an example of how you were using the script

Our script executes two ircombines to setup the pair of IRs according
to one (of five) configurations we commonly use. Here is one example:

/usr/gfx/ircombine -destination active -target :0.0 -source file \
        /usr/gfx/ucode/KONA/dg4/cmb/2++at++1024x768l_96s.cmb
/usr/gfx/ircombine -destination active -target :0.1 -source file \
        /usr/gfx/ucode/KONA/dg4/cmb/2++at++1024x768_96es.cmb

> This seems like the cleaner solution for now.

I prefer the above solution as it doesn't depend on which shell the
command is executed in.

Actually, one person sent me email that there was a patch that fixed
the problem I'm experiencing. I don't yet know which patch this is.

        Thanks,
        Bill

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