| Solaris 2.5.1 "Long filenames not readable bug" in IDL [message #9188] |
Mon, 09 June 1997 00:00 |
Paul van Delst
Messages: 364
Registered: March 1997
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Hello,
I noticed this topic in David Fannings IDL 5.0 Bug Reports. I had the
same problem using IDL 4.0.1 (and any other software that used a file
selection dialogue box for that matter) and found that certain patches
to the Sun operating system provided the solution. The following is what
I sent to our sysadmins to institute the OS corrections to remove the
problem.
Apologies if this is old news. I haven't followed this newsgroup to
closely recently.
Regards,
Paul van Delst
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(Taken from comp.unix.solaris)
On many Solaris systems, wildcards in some positions in file names
entered in the Filter field of file selection dialogs don't work. Sun
has a patch for this,ID is 103186-08, which consists of a new copy of
/usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.3.
Another possible problem requiring a patch from Sun is a messed up file
name list in file selection dialogs (Open, Include, etc.). The file
list shows up containing full path names and no horizontal scroll bar,
usually with the useful part of the names scrolled hopelessly off to the
right of the list. The patches for this are ID# 102226-19 (for Solaris
2.4), or ID# 103461-07 (for Solaris 2.5.1).
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