Re: nam trouble

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

nam is known to have problem with Debian's default tcl/tk due to some
unknown reason. So please make sure that it is using your own tcl and tk. 

There were some discussion on it in the mailing list several days ago. So
you may want to look it up.

- Haobo

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Alex Roetter wrote:

> I'm having some trouble getting nam up and running, and was wondering if
> anyone has had similar problems, or knows of a workaround.
> 
> First off, I'm running Debian Linux 2.x  on a Pentium III.
> 
> If i compile nam 1.0a7, or the nam-src-current release, running it dumps
> about
> ~ 6900 lines of tcl source to stdout, then quits.
> 
> if i run nam release 1.0a4 (as included in ns-allinone2.1b3)
> running nam w/o any arguments just prints a usage and exits...
> 
> if i run ns example1a.tcl (where example1a.tcl) is a small file i got from
> marc greis' tutorial, that creats 2 nodes, establishes a duplex link
> between them, and then fires off nam1.0a4, i get the error:
> 
> nam: unknown event at offset 21 in `out.nam'
> nam: `V -t * -v 1.0b6 -a 0
> '
> 
> where 'V -t * -v 1.0b6 -a 0' is the first line of the file out.nam
> 
> being very new to ns and nam, i'm wondering if anyone knows at all what
> this means, or has had similar trouble getting nam up and running?
> 
> thanks,
> alex
> 
>