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From: tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Colour xterm problems.
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Date: 19 Oct 90 19:55:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: rbk@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 19 Oct 90 09:21:13 GMT

In article <3579@skye.ed.ac.uk>, rbk@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Kirby) writes:

> I am having some problems with the recent comp.sources.x colour xterm posting.

> On starting up X, my .xinitrc file spawns off three xterms. Two usually start
> up ok, but the third hangs. The window comes up, but the shell isnt running.
> The xterm is sitting on a select inside VTparse.

> The same thing happens when I try to run the xterm from another one. This time
> though I get the message

> Read error -- errno = 5
> reset the terminal process group from xxxx to yyyy

> where xxxx is the PID of the csh (actually tcsh), and yyyy is the PID of the
> csh that I ran the xterm command from.

> FYI - The machine is a SPARCstation 1, with SunOS4.0.3, and X11R4 with patches
> 1-11, and I have not had this problem with the old xterm.

> Any help/patches would be gratefully received.

> 			Richard.

As soon as I get some free time I'm going to take a look at fixing this.
For now, you should recompile the color xterm with the main.c from the
R4 xterm.

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