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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: TVTWM ANYONE??? Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:03:45 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <34n23h$b0c@spruce.cic.net> References: <33tctf$phj@news.xs4all.nl> <BLYMN.94Sep8144606@mallee.awadi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <BLYMN.94Sep8144606@mallee.awadi.com.au>, Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote: >Dunno if this applies but I had a problem with tvtwm under NetBSD 0.9. >It seems that the system macro processor, m4, will not take stuff on >stdin. If you have a version of tvtwm that uses m4 to preprocess the >system.twmrc then you will have problems. I ended up just disabling >the feature by putting the "-M" flag on my tvtwm command line. It >worked fine when I did this. You might consider trying GNU m4 as an alternative. prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/m4-1.2.tar.gz Looking at the source, it appears to support stdin (haven't tried it). -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net