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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Davia Cox wrote:
>
> > I loaded Fink and Fink Commander and followed your instructions to 
> > download the texmacs program. However I had two problems: first i was 
> > unsure how to add the following:    
> > source /sw/bin/init.csh
> >
> > to the file .cshrc or .tcshrc in your home directory, depending on 
> > which shell you use. If you don't know which shell you use, then add 
> > the line to both files. If the files do not exist, then create them. 
> > I skipped this step and was successful in downloading the files I 

It was OK to skip this step; since 3 years or so, Fink has been doing 
this automatically at its installation. No need to do anything manually.

> > needed.  I downloaded the system tetex86 (I have MacTex with the tetex 
> > distribution on it).
> >
> > That ran fine, so I tried to complete the last step. My second problem 
> > occurred here: I opened a terminal and X11. I typed the command texmacs &
> > it ran until the end, then crashed. The message I received was:
> >
> > Davia-Coxs-Computer:~ daviacox$
> > Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in 
> > 'x_display_rep::x_display_rep'

Like for running any X11 application, you have to set the DISPLAY 
environment variable. On MacOSX, there is a special command that does 
this for you if you don't want to learn how to do it: open-x11. Just run

  open-x11 texmacs

This will even start X11 if it isn't yet running.

Concerning the kernel panics: I doubt very much that this has anything 
to do with Fink or TeXmacs. The only software component I have ever 
heard of causing kernel panics is some bittorrent client. Otherwise 
kernel panics are almost certainly hardware-related.

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Martin


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Martin