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From: snow@china.uu.net (John Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Help
Summary: how do you set this thing up?
Message-ID: <180@salt.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 23:01:46 GMT
References: <11722@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: snow@salt.UUCP (John Snow)
Organization: MDCCIS, Englewood, CO
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A couple of years ago someone here wrote a demonstration program under
NeWS.  It fell into disuse for a while, and now I have been given the
enviable task of updating it and geting it ready to show again.  This
is also mildly complicated by the fact that I can't even get my
environment set up right.  So could someone help me solve a couple of
minor(?) problems?

I have a SPARC station 1, and for the last year I have been running X
Windows with the t shell.  I got NeWS running by copying some old .ps
files and am slowly figuring out what's going on, but haven't found
any references to my problems.

When I start the server using 'news_server-sparc', it opens an 'nterm'
window and an emacs window.  The emacs window seems to work fine
(except I can't set the colors), but the nterm window does not.  The
first thing I have to do is manually source my .login file to get my
environment.  Any windows I open after that seem to do that
themselves.  But my main problem is the command line editing.  The
emacs style editing capabilities are there, but it only recognizes the
control keys (ie ^p, ^n, ^f, ^b) and not the keypad arrow keys like it
did under X, and the cutting and pasting functions seem to work
randomly, when they bother to work at all.  One more minor problem,
when I started posting this article I was dropped into an emacs
editor, which is fine, but this editor does not recognize the cursor
or about half my key bindings, which is not.  Could someone please
point me in the right direction for solving these, and hopefully
future, problem in this strange new world of NeWS.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

		John Snow
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