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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Xterm dies in tek mode
Message-ID: <9009171121.AA08030@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 17 Sep 90 11:21:17 GMT
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> Sun 3/140, SunOS 4.0.3, X11R4(patch 14) buit w/ gcc 1.37.

> Every time I try to use xterm in tek mode, it dies.  gdb on xterm -t
> tells me the problem is in the library routine XmuCopyISOLatinLowered
> called from TekRealize at line 1292 of xterm/Tekproc.c.  Is there a
> patch to deal with this one?

I thought so, and I thought it was one of the 14.  I guess not.

The quick kludge fix is to use -fwritable-strings when building xterm.
The proper fix is to change whatever's guilty (xterm, I think) so it
doesn't try to write into a string literal.

					der Mouse

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