Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7

Duc,
I am very old.
Sometimes things work; sometimes they don't.Glad you got it going.
Terry

> From: duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:25:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
> 
> After more than a week of pounding on the problem on our own, and another 
> week after getting some hints from this list in trying to solve our 
> Hummingbird problem, now, the rest of the story.
> 
> Circumstantial evidences point to the Windows 7 personal firewall as the 
> source of our problems so we had to rule it out conclusively. After much 
> groveling with the corporate IT demi-gods they relented and allowed us to 
> completely disable it. Turned out the firewall was not the problem, but it 
> was necessary to prove it conclusively.
> 
> Terry Doucet's suggestion of trying HH1011 is a godsend, and a curse!
> 
> We applied the suggested changes, and not only that didn't fix our problem on 
> Win 7, it broke what was running fine on Win XP! But the error messages when 
> we tried to run this script file (/usr/fox/bin/VT100.script) slowly point the 
> way to a shell variable being null'ed out by a portion of the fixes.
> 
> To make a long story short, of the three modifications recommended by HH1011, 
> only changing `locale_env ...` to the full path `/usr/openwin/bin/locale_env 
> ...` is necessary to fix our problem. The first chunk of codes (8 lines to be 
> inserted after the comment "# If Solaris") broke the script file horribly by 
> exporting an empty DISPLAY shell variable.
> 
> I know there cannot be that many installations out there running DM with 
> Solaris boxes anymore, but I want this to be in the archive to help prevent 
> future head-banging against the wall like we did for more than two weeks.
> 
> Thanks to all who helped (and all who pitied us in silence).
> 
> Duc
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:18 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
> 
> Terry,
> 
> I've checked out several HHs regarding Hummingbird, but missed this one. I'll 
> try the suggested fix. Thanks for the helpful hint. ;-)
> 
> (But our problem is really not a lock-up, just that nothing happens upon a 
> mouse click save for that message in the message area.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Duc
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Terry Doucet
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:04 PM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Hummingbird eXceed on Windows 7
> 
> Duc,
> Can you check HH1011 to see if that is of any help to you.  I remember issues 
> with starting VT100 that may have been fixed with the HH.
> Terry
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