Hi, I'm a new user of poplog and I'm having a problem. First, I have an up-to-date Debian 9 system running on a 4 GHz 2-core processor with 4 GiB memory and 250 GB disk. After setting up a poplog dir under my home dir I went through the script for getting and installing required libraries with no error or warning messages. I then downloaded the file 'getpoplog.sh', set modes and ran it with no warning or error messages. I did look at the file "makeindexes-out.txt" and found two "WARNING" lines saying that two ref directories did not have sub- directories named "doc_index". There were no error messages.
The software installation seems OK -- I was able to invoke 'pop11', 'clisp', 'prolog' and 'pml' successfully. I was able to enter my favorite naive recursive and tail recursive definitions of the factorial function into clisp and pml; test runs were successful and pleasingly quick, even for 1000! and 10000!. I also exercised prolog a little, consulting user, entering a couple of facts and a rule, exiting from user and then exercising the rule. I also tried a couple of lines from the pop-11 primer into pop11 with expected results. So Poplog seems to be running OK. However, ved is something else again. I tried both ved and xved; with both I get the warning "PIXMAP FILE NOT FOUND" and both start up. I also get a complaint "unknown terminal type: xterm-256color". When I try "teach teach" I get the message "(not found - try TEACH TEACHFILES)". When I try "TEACH TEACHFILES" I get the same message! Invoking either on a file does read the file into the editor, but then I can do little. I have had little success using the editor to navigate because the I have not found any doc specifying the mapping from abstract key names to keystrokes (the user guide says "These will be supplied separately."). Available yet? Where? At this point ved seems unusable, and since so much of the documentation seems to be available only through ved, it is difficult to see how I can find out what I need to know to use the language implementations. Any ideas what's wrong with either the installation or my understanding? Thanks for your attention, Bill Wood
