Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!bohra!ejp From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: xterm /dev/tty fix Message-ID: <607@bohra.cpg.oz> Date: 11 Sep 90 04:03:54 GMT References: <1990Sep9.032703.27619@swbatl.sbc.com> Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia Lines: 25 In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: > adams@swbatl.sbc.com writes: > As to the > /dev/tty problem that hoses getpass(3) (and pg(1), nastily) I've been > using the "screen" utility (comp.sources - long ago) to get around > this problem until our soon to happen upgrade to 5.0. > > Upgrading to 5.0 may not help. When this topic last came up here, the > enclosed article was posted. We changed our xterm sources to > accommodate, and now we have functional /dev/tty in xterm. Try it, > you'll like it. Although this person didn't think the change should > fix xterm, it does, at least under 4.4c. This applies to xterms built in the ucb universe. It is possible by various subterfuges* to build it in the att universe, in which case the problem is not evident [OS/x 5.0], because the device is opened in the correct mode under that flavour. *Details for porting X11R4 to the att universe are available from me on request. If there's enough interest, I will post here. -- Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group ejp@bohra.cpg.oz D