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From: khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
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Subject: Re: Xterm dies in tek mode
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Date: 18 Sep 90 13:30:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: moraes@cs.toronto.edu's message of 17 Sep 90 21:49:58 GMT

In article <90Sep17.174858edt.382@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
   wayne@teemc.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) writes:
   >	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?

   Here's a copy of a bug report we filed with xbugs in January --
   strictly unblessed and unsupported, of course!

[report deleted]

here's my version, much simpler...

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Vick Khera     Gradual Student          Department of Computer Science
ARPA:   khera@cs.duke.edu               Duke University
UUCP:   ...!mcnc!duke!khera             Durham, NC 27706       (919) 660-6528


*** /tmp/,RCSt1018705	Mon Sep 17 10:51:16 1990
--- Tekproc.c	Fri Jul 13 10:19:17 1990
***************
*** 218,223
  
  static Dimension defOne = 1;
  
  static XtResource resources[] = {
      {XtNwidth, XtCWidth, XtRDimension, sizeof(Dimension),
  	 XtOffset(Widget, core.width), XtRDimension, (caddr_t)&defOne},

--- 218,227 -----
  
  static Dimension defOne = 1;
  
+ /* prevent gcc from making initial font name read-only, causing core dump */
+ /* when XmuCopyISOLatin1Lowered() is called to copy it onto itself */
+ static char initialFontStr[] = "large";
+ 
  static XtResource resources[] = {
      {XtNwidth, XtCWidth, XtRDimension, sizeof(Dimension),
  	 XtOffset(Widget, core.width), XtRDimension, (caddr_t)&defOne},
***************
*** 237,243
         XtRString, "6x10"},
      {"initialFont", "InitialFont", XtRString, sizeof(char *),
         XtOffset(TekWidget, tek.initial_font),
!        XtRString, "large"},
  };
  
  static void TekInitialize(), TekRealize(), TekConfigure();

--- 241,247 -----
         XtRString, "6x10"},
      {"initialFont", "InitialFont", XtRString, sizeof(char *),
         XtOffset(TekWidget, tek.initial_font),
!        XtRString, initialFontStr},
  };
  
  static void TekInitialize(), TekRealize(), TekConfigure();
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Vick Khera     Gradual Student          Department of Computer Science
ARPA:   khera@cs.duke.edu               Duke University
UUCP:   ...!mcnc!duke!khera             Durham, NC 27706       (919) 660-6528