[daip] ZLASCL feature?

[Lorant Sjouwerman, JIVE]

Dear all,

We have 15OCT99 and 31DEC99 versions of aips for Solaris and Linux.
We found a feature that we cannot explain in $SYSUNIX/ZLASCL;
(Line 183 - 188):
            for i in `echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/ /g'` ; do
               [ -s $i/ghostview ] && gs=$i/ghostview && break
               [ -s $i/gv ] && gs=$i/gs && break
               [ -s $i/gs ] && gs=$i/gs && break
               [ -s $i/ghostscript ] && gs=$i/gs && break
            done

First of all there is a typo in line 185: gs=$i/gs -> gs=$i/gv
                                                ^^          ^^ 
Furthermore, although Solaris behaves fine, it seems that Linux does not
handle the 'break' properly (at least not when starting up with the default
printer at start is PREVIEW) - we always got ghostscript no matter what
$DA00/PRDEVS.LIST says as defenition, both in 15OCT99 and 31DEC99.

We have solved this in a way that is workable here, but I wonder if this is
a know thing or just us at NFRA/JIVE.


Groets,
                                                                  
Lorant Sjouwerman -- JIVE Support Scientist -- sjouwerman at jive.nl
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