Re: libtermcap error

[John Sherk]

John,

Thanks for the tip on "less". As it turns out, we are picking up less 
from an nfs mouted directory from our ITS department. The utilities and 
programs in that area were compiled with AIX 3.2.5 and exported to 
campus. Although I have found that most of the utilities are binary 
compatible with AIX 4, this is one that is not (at least not the way it 
was compiled). Since the "more" program that comes with AIX 4 is pretty 
good (allows paging back etc.), I have temporarily put in a link to it 
(called less) on the system ahead of the nfs mounted less in the search 
path. That has fixed the problem listed below until such time as I have 
the chance to compile less locally.

I'm sure I would never have found this on my own. Thanks again.

...john


On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, John L Daschbach wrote:

>    Hi,
> 
>    I have successfully compiled octave-1.1.1 under AIX 4.1.4, and installed 
>    it on the system.
> 
>    When I enter "octave" it seems to start and run ok.
>    When I enter "help -i" at the octave prompt I the help info seems to run 
> ok.
> 
>    I have a user who entered "help residue" and got the following response:
> 
>     octave:1> help residue
>           0509-037 System error - error data is: less
>           0509-022 Cannot load library libtermcap.a[shr.o].
>           0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does 
>     not exist.
> 
>    What do I do to fix it?
> 
> It looks like 'less' is dynamically loading libtermcap.a, or trying to
> actually.  'help -i' runs info, 'help residue' runs a pager, in this
> case 'less' to page output through in your octave session.  Less just
> needs to know how to find this dynamically linked library
> (libtermcap.a).  Check to see that this is setup correctly.
> 
> -John
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