MAE 1.0: Window Resizing Problem And Workaround (4/96)


For some time I've been having problems resizing my MAE window and I cannot think of what else to look for. Below are my environment variables. What am I missing?



gaea(55)%env

HOME=/home/admin/worsham

PATH=/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/opt/SUNWwabi/bin:/opt/X11R5/bin:/opt

/apple/bin:/opt/ioffice/bin:/opt/tex/bin:/opt/ncar/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbi

n:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/lib/nis:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ccs/lib:/opt/bin:/usr/ucblib:.

LOGNAME=worsham

HZ=100

TERM=sun-cmd

TZ=US/Eastern

SHELL=/bin/csh

MAIL=/var/mail/worsham

SHLVL=1

PWD=/home/admin/worsham

USER=worsham

HOST=gaea

HOSTTYPE=sun4

XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults:/opt/lib/app-defaults

OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin

SUNPROHOME=/opt/SUNWspro

WABIHOME=/opt/SUNWwabi

APPLEHOME=/opt/apple

X11R5HOME=/opt/X11R5

TeXHOME=/opt/tex

NCARG_ROOT=/opt/ncar

NCARG_LIB=/opt/ncar/lib

GIS=/opt/grass

GISBASE=/opt/grass/grass.data

ISLANDHOME=/opt/ioffice

IDL_DIR=/opt/idl

PAGER=more

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/lib:/opt/SUNWwabi/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/ccs

/lib:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib:/opt/X11R5/lib:/opt/apple/lib

MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/opt/SUNWspro/man:/opt/SUNWwabi/man:/usr/openwin/man:/

opt/tex/man:/opt/ncar/man:/opt/man:/usr/man:/opt/X11R5/man:/opt/ioffice/man:/

opt/apple/man

EDITOR=emacs

TBFILEFORMAT=1

MYBIN=~/bin

MYPROMPT=%

DISPLAY=:0

gaea(56)%groups

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The MAE 1.0 window resizing issue you've encountered was caused by the environment variable, TBFILEFORMAT, which you set to 1 in your environment variables. This, in turn, caused MAE to create two files, "Finder Preferences" and "Monitors.Preferences" in AppleDouble file format in the System\\ Folder/Preferences folder. The "Monitors.Preferences" file, in AppleDouble format, doesn't seem able to update the window size in the Finder properly. Without TBFILEFORMAT being set to 1, which is the default, MAE creates these two files in AppleSingle file format.



We were able to verified this. A SPR (Software Problem Report) will be submitted to MAE Engineering's attention.



We suggest the following to make window resizing work:



1) Login as your own account.



2) Do the command to unset the TBFILEFORMAT:



for CSH: unsetenv TBFILEFORMAT

for SH or KSH: unset TBFILEFORMAT



DO NOT set the TBFILEFORMAT environment variable to 1 in your .login

or .profile file.



3) Go to your System\\ Folder/Preferences directory and remove the Finder

and Monitors Preference files:



cd System\\ Folder/Preferences

rm Finder\\ Preferences Monitors.Preferences



4) Launch mae and resize the window normally.





Article Change History:

08 Apr 1996 - Specified this is MAE 1.0 issue.







Published Date: Feb 19, 2012