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I downloaded magic-7.3.0.tgz from
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic/magic7_3.html and performed the
following steps successfully on both a RedHat8 and a RedHat9 system:

tar -xvzf magic-7.3.0.tgz
cd magic-7.3.0
cd scripts
./configure --with-tcl --with-open-gl
cd ..
make tcl
make install-tcl

At this point, I was able to invoke 'magic -w &'.

Normally, I would expect to see the compilation date, but it scrolled
quickly off my screen with messages like:

pc (on metal1) - m1 -> space
/home/cad/lib/magic/sys/scmos.tech line 5528: section DRC
OK types aren't all in the right plane.

I then did an "export CAD_HOME=/usr/local" and 'magic -w' could not find
up.xbm. So, I set CAD_HOME to /usr/local/ by including the trailing "/" and
now I get a similar set of message as above with a little difference as
shown:

pc (on metal1) - m1 -> space
/usr/local//lib/magic/sys/scmos.tech line 5528: section DRC
OK types aren't all in the right plane.

Although, I now get a magic window, the double // between local and lib is
puzzling to me. There must be something going on here I dont understand yet,
but magic-7.3.0 does run and begets a window and I can make the toolbar come
and go at will.

I can also see on my xterm (not the tcl window, but xterm), that I get
messages like:

Stackable electrodecontact and m2contact
Stackable capcontact and m2contact
Stackable ndcontact and m2contact
... ///other very similar lines all beginning with the word "Stackable"
DBNumUserLayers  =  66, DBNmuTypes  =  82

I suspect these will/should migrate to the TCL window as appropriate and
away from the xterm window. This occurs whether I background magic with an
"&" or not.

I also notice that in the last few magic 7.2 releases, that when I exit
magic, I get messages like:

Font _*_helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-*-75-75-p-*-iso8859-* still in cache.

This occurs on both the RedHat8 and RedHat9 systems.

At this point, I think getting more involved in tech files is indicated, so
I'll go that direction along with re-looking at the mosis standard cells
that gave me so much trouble a couple of months ago to see if the stacked
contacts work more smoothly.

If you have any suggestions on methods of validating the 7.3 and stacked
contacts, that would be wonderful to hear.

With highest regards from Planet Irvine, Charles

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