Re: Socket problem while running a TKGnats report

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 address@hidden wrote:

> I was hoping someone has run into this problem with TKGnats before. I
> have been trying to run a print command, but whenever I try to used
> anything other than troff-file, I get the following error -
> 
> Error: error writing "<filename>": broken pipe
> 
> where <filename> is something like "filebfb618" (Its different every time)
> 
> In the details I get:
> 
> error writing "filebfb618": broken pipe
> error writing "filebfb618": broken pipe
>     while executing
> "puts $fout ".fi\n$line""
>     (procedure "freeform_text_wrap" line 21)
>     invoked from within
> "freeform_text_wrap $fout flds {>Fix}"
>     (procedure "Full" line 75)
>     invoked from within
> "$procname $prid $ln"
>     (procedure "print_listbox" line 14)
>     invoked from within
> "print_listbox $lbpath $print"
>     (procedure "perform_print_cmd" line 64)
>     invoked from within
> "perform_print_cmd Full"
>     (menu invoke)
> 
> I am using a Windows TKGnats front end with a HP UNIX back-end for
> Gnats. The main functionality of the tool (creating and updating PRs)
> seems to be working without a hitch, so I know the two pieces
> communicate with each other. I have installed groff on Windows, and it
> seems to be accessing the tool correctly.
> 
> Would anyone have any ideas regarding what might be causing this? Any
> help would be appreciated.

The print feature of TkGnats is quite UNIX-y. I don't know if anybody has
gotten it to work on Windows.

...RickM...