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[Brent L. Bates TAD/TAB ms294 x42854]

   Than sounds typical.  It seems that the files and evironment that
the SGI engineers work in is different from what is shipped to the
users.  You try something like you did and it doesn't work, but the
guy at SGI doesn't know why right off, because it works fine for him.
   A while back I got the SGI demo tape and tried to make a few things.
They didn't work right away, include files and libraries were missing
; and some enviromental variables weren't set that needed to be.
I eventually got it to work, with some help from someone at SGI, but
it should have worked without all that extra effort.
   What is shipped out needs to more like what the SGI people have,
or when they try to help you things don't work the same as on their
machines and that take more time.
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	Brent L. Bates
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