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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: something's freaking out olvwm
- Message-ID: <ins217t.722557814@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov20.193629.17962@mcs.gvsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:30:14 GMT
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- wissner@beech.mcs.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner) writes:
-
-
- >Has anybody else had strange problems with olvwm? For some
- >reason, when I try to use it, it brings X down, complaining
- >about some sort of memory problem (can't remember exact words).
- >Oddly enough, twm works just fine.
-
- >I've been using olvwm for a heck of a long time now, and have
- >never had any problems. This seems to be happening on pl4 and 5.
- >I've recompiled; it's not just an old binary. I'm using HLU's
- >package on a 486-33, 12mb RAM, tseng, etc etc. I've had the
- >same setup for quite a while (I did get a new drive; but have a
- >hard time picturing /that/ causing this problem).
-
- >I follow the group and haven't seen anyone else ask about this,
- >so I'm assuming that I'm just missing something blatantly obvious.
- >Any clues would be great; else I'm probably just stumble upon it.
-
- Yeah, If you're using DIRMENU in your .openwin-menu or WINMENU,
- it crashes the moment it rereads the file, and then refuses to run until you
- take it out...
- There's a patch for olvwm3.2 posted not too long ago, but I haven't
- looked at it yet...
-
- ENjoy !
-
- Cos !
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