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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: PTF 1751 breaks "pg" with aixterm
Message-ID: <571@pan.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 08:01:21 GMT
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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After installing PTF 1751 on AIX/RT, the "pg" command is no longer able
(or willing) to figure out how many lines an aixterm window actually has.
Before PTF 1751, it did this correctly; after 1751, it treats aixterm as
if it were an ordinary ibm6152, with 25 lines.  Restoring /bin/pg from
the 2.2.1 Base Operating System diskettes solves the problem, so it is
apparently the pg program itself that they broke.

There certainly have been a *lot* of problems with PTF 1751.  Perhaps
with all the discussion and complaint in this newsgroup about notification
and distribution of PTFs, the people at IBM have decided to "prove" their
point about PTFs being "untested" software that "might" break something
else, and thus justify their policies on this?  I think I would rather
believe this, than to believe that the people who prepare these things
are getting less and less competent to produce working software, with a
major new release coming up soon.

jw