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Re: [fis-gtm] user experience (WAS Re: Fis-gtm accepted in unstable)




On 12/22/2013 08:41 AM (US Eastern Time), Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi,

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:02:08AM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:

[KSB2] <...snip...>

[amul:2] Should we include a getting started section in the README?
[KSB] As Amul says, the gtm script included in GT.M is what people
should use out of the box.  It sets up a default environment and
invokes the mumps program.  So, the first time you run it, you will
see all the verbiage above where it creates the environment in
$HOME/.fis-gtm, or, if you define the gtmdir environment variable,
in $gtmdir/.fis-gtm.  Once an environment is created, gtm is quiet,
e.g.:

    kbhaskar@bhaskark:~$ /usr/lib/fis-gtm/V6.0-003_x86_64/gtm
For me this call is just "scary".  A user should call something in
/usr/bin and we should provide a wrapper for this.  I injected

    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/fis-gtm.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/bin/mumps

Please check and enhance if needed.

[KSB2] Could you make /usr/bin/gtm a symbolic link to the gtm script in the directory where GT.M is installed?

Setting gtm_chset to utf-8, which also requires LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL
to be defined to a suitable utf8 locale, runs the mumps process in
UTF-8 mode, e.g.:

    kbhaskar@bhaskark:~$ gtm_chset=utf-8 LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
    /usr/lib/fis-gtm/V6.0-003_x86_64/gtm
I guess this should also be part of the script I wrote.  Is this
correct?

[KSB2] I think that the decision to run in traditional M mode vs. UTF-8 mode should be made when the process is invoked. See a post I just made in response to Karsten Hilbert's post in this thread. If LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE is set to a utf8 locale, can the gtm script assume that the user wants to run in UTF-8 mode?

Regards
-- Bhaskar

My Christmas vacation project is to draft a gtm man(1) page.
Great.

Kind regards

         Andreas.


--
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises.

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