Self-interest March 1994

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25 discussions

Self bug on ZX boards?
by rcd＠cs.brown.edu 15 Mar '94

15 Mar '94

Hi, I guess this isn't the best way to introduce myself to this group, but I am having a small difficultly. I am trying to play with the graphical development environment for Self-3.0 on a Sun SPARC 10/40 with a ZX board and am not seeing any text in the menus that pop-up from an object (or its slots). This works fine on my Sun SPARC 10/40 that has a GX board. So, my question is: is this a known bug? or am I doing something really silly? Thanks rcd

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parallel Self paper
by jecel＠lsi.usp.br 04 Mar '94

04 Mar '94

I have made a paper I submitted to the IEEE / USP International Workshop on High Performance Computing available as TR94001.ps via anonymous FTP to lsi.usp.br (143.107.3.251) in the directory pub/merlin. It is called "Adaptive Compilation in the Merlin System for Parallel Machine". The description of the system isn't very good, but my other papers are in Portuguese. You will be able to read more about it when it is running in OOPSLA'98 :-) I just thought some of you might be interested as it filled with Self references. - Jecel

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using glue in Self 3.0
by Mario.Wolczko＠Eng.Sun.COM 02 Mar '94

02 Mar '94

This message applies to all those who are interested in using "glue" in Self to connect Self to external libararies or systems. It turns out that the release files are partitioned in such a way that you cannot use glue without also installing the optional VM source package -- this was a mistake on our part, for which I apologize unreservedly. If you don't want to install the VM sources, I have placed just the required files into a separate package. Install this, and you should be able to use glue (eg, to build the serverDemo example). The file is self.stanford.edu:/pub/Self-3.0/patches/patch1.tar.gz, and mushroom.cs.man.ac.uk:/pub/self/3.0/patches/patch1.tar.gz. Copy this to your Self working tree (so that the sun4, svr4 and applications directories are subdirectories of the current directory), then unpack with the command gzip -d <patch1.tar.gz | tar xfv - This should give you a new version of applications/serverDemo/server.self, a bunch of Makefile templates, and two directories, {sun4,svr4}/generated/incls, containing header files you need to build the demo. Typing "make" in the serverDemo directory should build "toself" and "socks.so". -Mario Sun Microsystems Labs., Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave, M/S MTV 29-116, Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A. tel: 415 336 6022, fax: 415 969 7269.

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Re: Recovering the ui after a crash
by Bay.Chang＠Eng.Sun.COM 01 Mar '94

01 Mar '94

If you cause the ui to crash, you can often recover by typing ui continue at the prompt. This attempts to restart the same ui process. If this is unsuccessful, you must start a new ui process. [Optional: at this point you can attempt to recover some of the C-heap that the dead ui holds on to by typing ui finalize at the prompt. This attempts to close down the ui's X connection.] To start a new ui process, you can type ui restart at the prompt. This starts a new ui process and fills the ui with the objects that were in the old one. Arrows are not restored, however, and neither are the contents of "send" menus. If you want a clean ui with only the lobby, type ui start at the prompt. Bay

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Recovering the ui after a crash
by Jon Taylor 01 Mar '94

01 Mar '94

I wonder if you can help me. Being a fairly new Self user I have not discovered the difference between a safe and unsafe experiment. This of course means that I frequently 'crash' self and lose my ui. Is there any easy way to throw away the existing broken ui and get a fresh one which is not broken. Thanks in advance, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Taylor Department of Computer Science Tel : (+44) 061 275 6146 University of Manchester Fax : (+44) 061 275 6236 Oxford Rd email : jont(a)cs.man.ac.uk Manchester M13 9PL

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Self-interest March 1994