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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: PTF 1751 breaks "pg" with aixterm
Message-ID: <1989Sep20.035805.28628@acheron.uucp>
Date: 20 Sep 89 03:58:05 GMT
References: <571@pan.UUCP>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <571@pan.UUCP>, by jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson):
> 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

If you have ANY choice, do not put 1751 on.  It breaks NFS, DS and ... 
getty (!).  My serial ports stopped working for login after applying 
this PTF.  Lucky thing I had a 1749 machine around to steal the getty
from.  It looks like the new getty screws up the baud rate or parity
somehow.
-- 
Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke