I wanted to try hypertex in silver on Gentoo Linux. It turned out that I can not start sman, becouse 'ptyopen' was failing. Atfter a little investigation I found out that the machine (which otherwise uses bleeding edge new software) has only old legacy pty's -- the new '/dev/ptmx' and '/dev/pts' were not enabled. All other software worked fine, trying '/dev/ptmx' first and then silently falling back to legacy pty's -- only Axiom assumed that Linux must have working '/dev/ptmx'.
While I consider this machine as misconfigured, the problem may appear in real use. If we want Axiom to "just work" it should also try new method first and then fall back to legacy pty's. -- Waldek Hebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer