Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!draco.acs.uci.edu!iglesias From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X11R4 DEC5000 + Xterm Keywords: X11R4 DEC 5000 Message-ID: <27484647.5544@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 19 Nov 90 20:53:27 GMT References: <1157@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <35389@super.ORG> Reply-To: Mike Iglesias Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 63 Nntp-Posting-Host: draco.acs.uci.edu In article <35389@super.ORG> law@super.ORG (Jeff A Law) writes: >On a different topic -- the Xterm from MIT seems to have a little >trouble with Ultrix -- when I use escape file completion the Dec >never backs up over the escape character.. Am I the *only* person >with this problem?!? The enclosed patch seems to fix this problem. Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias Article 3271 of comp.unix.ultrix: Xref: orion.oac.uci.edu comp.windows.x:19975 comp.unix.ultrix:3271 Path: orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!osf.org!dbrooks From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: xterm and newcsh under Ultrix Keywords: ultrix newcsh csh xterm Message-ID: <8307@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Date: 21 May 90 18:13:36 GMT Sender: news@OSF.ORG Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 32 Well, nobody sent me an actual solution to the problem I had with Ultrix "newcsh" and R4 xterm, where the "escape" used to initiate filename or command completion didn't get properly erased. There doesn't seem to be a way round it without programming, which is a shame. Thanks to those who did offer insights. I put in the following somewhat simple fix: *** VTPrsTbl.c.orig Wed Mar 1 20:00:15 1989 --- VTPrsTbl.c Fri Apr 20 19:47:06 1990 *************** *** 216,218 **** /* 0x88 0x89 0x8a 0x8b */ ! CASE_IGNORE, CASE_IGNORE, --- 216,218 ---- /* 0x88 0x89 0x8a 0x8b */ ! CASE_BS, CASE_IGNORE, IMHO, an xterm user should be able to specify "strip to 7 bits on input" just like a real terminal can. This would be nearly as simple to hack in, and I'll probably do it when I get time. I don't offer the above as an official fix! (actually, it's arguable that, for completeness, xterm should offer the 5 different combinations of parity: mark, space, odd, even, and full 8-bit, with options to DTRT on input, but that's much less important, and has the drawback of dragging the technology backwards...). -- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks