How to get FrescoVFX for Solaris 2.4

To bring over the pre-built Solaris version of FrescoVFX:

1. Bring over the file FrescoVFX-solaris25.tar.gz. This takes up about 24MB when uncompressed/untarred.

2. Uncompress and extract the Fresco source tree:

    % gunzip FrescoVFX-solaris25.tar.gz
    % tar xvf FrescoVFX-solaris25.tar

This will put the FrescoVFX src tree in a directory named FrescoVFX.

To set up and run vfx and other programs:

1. Set your path to include the build/X11/bin directory and your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include build/X11/lib as follows:

      % setenv PATH <FRESCO>/build/X11/bin:$PATH
      % setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <FRESCO>/build/X11/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

where <FRESCO> denotes the absolute path to the FrescoVFX directory.

2. Run the vfx program from the directory FrescoVFX/build/X11. Start the program by typing bin/vfx. When you start it, the Menlo Park FASLAB "home page" appears. Navigate around the (live) pages as you would navigate around the web.

For now, vfx must be executed from the X11 directory by invoking bin/vfx. This is because the explorer "content" uses path names relative to the X11 directory. Sorry for this inconvenience.

3. You can also try out the examples programs and fdraw

      % examples
      % fdraw

4. For info on running the collaborative examples, see these instructions.

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Last updated on Thu Jul 25 18:11:30 PDT 1996.