WorkMan system notes: OSF/1

# OSF/1 notes

This release contains preliminary support for OSF/1. There are still problems and unsupported features, but the idea is that putting out this buggy version will motivate someone to fix what's wrong. I don't have any OSF/1 boxes so I can't look at it myself.

If you use something other than the provided Makefile.osf1, note that you must define the "OSF1" macro in your cc options or the OSF/1 platform module won't compile.

Excerpted from a mail message from R.J. Edwards, who did the port:

> I was able to port workman to a DEC alpha OSF/1 v1.2 machine today. I had trouble with imake/xmkmf. In the Makefile I had to change INCDIR and LIBDIR to point to my xview directories.

> I still have to specify my drive name with the -c option and it will bomb out if there's no cd in it. The volume controls don't work and I can't eject w/o terminating workman and doing it manually. These problems are probably due to using the ultrix platform and not doing the work necessary for the OSF/1 platform.

If you're an OSF/1 guru and would like to address the above problems, or any others you find, please let me know.

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##### Last update: 02 Jun 1995