Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sunc.osc.edu!malgudi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: OpenWindows shelltool/cmdtool under X-terminal Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 02:08:33 GMT References: <2522@ux.acs.umn.edu> <38553@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mic@ut-emx.uucp's message of 22 Oct 90 18:36:08 GMT > I found an answer to this problem last week. The problem is that > SunOS 4.1 uses POSIX job control, which changes the way programs need > to dissociate themselves from the controlling terminal. Shelltool and > cmdtool don't do this quite the way they need to under 4.1; I guess > the OpenWindows developers never tried invoking these programs on an X > terminal. I'd be very grateful if someone who knows what the right fixes to the code of cmdtool, Andrew typescript, and xterm are to make them all POSIX-compliant would post said fixes... Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304