rman

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, wehmann@fnal.gov wrote:

> In my installation of Cygwin
>
> rman is found at
>
> bash-3.2$ which rman
> /usr/X11R6/bin/rman
>
> The version is
>
> bash-3.2$ rman -v
> PolyglotMan v3.0.8+X.Org
>
> and it comes with the following tar file
>
> bash-3.2$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/Temporary/downloads/cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin/release/x11/xorg-x11-bin
> bash-3.2$ ls
> xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2
>
> bash-3.2$ tar -jtf xorg-x11-bin-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2 usr/X11R6/bin/rman.exe
> usr/X11R6/bin/rman.exe
>
> ------------------------------
>
> I make several observations:
>
> 1) The latest version at
>
> http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/
>
> is 3.2

"latest" for a SourceForge program can be interesting.  That's from 2005.

What's on SourceForge lacks most of the fixes originally made in XFree86.

There was a thread on xorg a few years ago, dealing with rman 3.2, which 
if I recall properly didn't go anywhere toward addressing the issues in 
rman.  (I'd made some additional fixes in rman, which its inactive 
developer didn't follow up on).

> 2) I don't see that rman needs an X-server, so it is puzzling why it
> is found where it is.

It's there simply because the program was useful for XFree86, and the 
original version didn't generate very useful html.  (iirc, about 10% of
the resulting files were too badly mangled to read).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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