Problems with Answerbook and 2.3

In article <2hjbe4$5rq@bart.meiko.com>,addy@meiko.co.uk (David Addison) writes:

|> Original Post:

|> >I am having problems trying to get the 2.3 Answerbook to display anything on 2.3.

|> >

|> >When I run it up, I get the Navigator which lets me step though the End User AB.

|> >But when I then try to display something; it fires off 1 docviewer process,

|> >hangs around a while, displays 'Library: /home/kursa/addy/.ab_library' at the

|> >bottom of the Navigator window and then gives pop-up window saying:

|> >

|> > Can't start new viewer

|> > Could not launch new Viewer.

|> >

|> >All I can do is hit continue on this window.

|> >It does nothing else and leaves the docviewer process hanging around.

|>

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|> I have made the following discoveries (with help from the net):

|>

|> a) In my case, the problem seems to be provoked by Lucid Emacs (19.6 & 19.9)

|> - Larry Virdenlwv26@cas.org also reported similar problems with Mosiac, FrameMaker, Caseware etc.

|>

Not necessarily true. I have also experienced the same problem complicated

by Mosaic (it may well be that xv invoked by mosaic was causing the problem ...).

Hence, the problem could lie in Motif/OW libs or in the server or combinations

thereof ...


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