Fixed!!!
And many thanks to JMarc for patience.
I had gotten a libc.so.5 form of libforms.so.0.88 mixed into my system.
A diagnostic approach that would have worked is.
locate libforms.so.0.88
strings path/libforms.so.0.88 |egrep libc
The first step is for those of us who have multiple installs of various
things. REALLY should eliminate repititions; there are tools to find
duplicate file names somewhere.
The second step should yield libc.so.6 !
Otherwise things like system(""), getcwd() fail in lyx. Although I can't
imagine why.
Again: Thanks to JMarc for patience and many emails.
Ray
Sincerely,
Raymond E. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5251 Wayne Rd. White Lake, MI 48383
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