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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

660.0. "Garbled text when displaying text lists on VMS 5.4-1 systems" by NOATAK::TIMMERMAN (Jim Timmerman) Thu Jan 24 1991 20:18


    I am running DECmcc/BMS EFT 1.1 on a VMS 5.3-1 system with funny behavior
    of characters when I display MAP children entities on a VMS 5.4-1 based
    server.
    
    GLCIER VMS 5.3-1  DECnet 10.508 & DECmcc/BMS EFT 1.1 
    
                         is host node where EFT 1.1 is installed.
    
    
    DEVORE VMS 5.4-1  DECnet 62.518 (in hidden area)
    
                         is where I usually display the iconic map.
    
    When I double click on any icon for a .DNA_NODE.* (NODE4 entities) or any
    children entities which display text lists, I get a text list of the
    children entities in badly garbled font.  It looks like a bunch of heavy
    verticle bars imposed on good text.  I can select the entities and
    perform operations on them, but it sure is distracting.
    
    I have tried displaying on other 5.4-1 systems not in hidden areas with
    same results.
    
    I have tried displaying on other 5.3-1 systems with NO problems...  
    
    I have looked in both DECwindows and VMS Field Test notes and have seen
    no entries that struck me as being related.
    
    Any clues ?
    
    Jim Timmerman
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660.1TOOK::F_MESSINGERFri Jan 25 1991 08:5013

Jim,

This is a known bug, but you that fact that you ran on a group of 5.3 machines
and a group of 5.4 machines and saw some consistant behavior is the best clue
yet.

Is there a way for you to easily compare the 5.3 server sysgen parameters
against the 5.4 server sysgen parameters?  The system authorize params
might have an effect too.

Fred
660.2reference note 567TOOK::HAOFri Jan 25 1991 08:525
    Please take a look at note 567.  This topic came up there.  It appears
    to be a problem with running VMS 5.4.
    
    Christine