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From: djp@ecs.soton.ac.uk (David Pritchard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Cmdtool stty problems
Message-ID: <6854@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 14:33:51 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.091407.27845@cbnewse.att.com> <1991Feb14.093919@Unify.com>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <1991Feb14.093919@Unify.com> grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) writes:

>In article <1991Feb11.091407.27845@cbnewse.att.com>, jcd@spock.att.com (Jack
>Dixon) writes:

>> 
>> I'm running Openwindows 2.0 on a Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.1, and
>> I`m having problems with the cmdtool.  For example, if I tip cua1 to
... more details omitted

>Please post any responses, 'cuz I have similar problems even when not
... more details omitted

I recently spent most of a day trying to debug a piece of third-party
software, eventually tracking it down to cmdtool (the software worked
ok under xterm, but it took me a while to spot the corelation - I thought
that it was the machine (cmdtool = localhost, xterm = remotehost) )

What was happening was that cmdtool was IGNORING ioctl() requests, in 
particular the icrnl attribute.  I reported this to SUN, who were EXTREMELY
uncooperative - its not a bug its a feature, so they do not intend to fix
it.

Even though we, too, like the sexy scrollbars, we have so much stuff which
just will not work with cmdtool (or shelltool) that we are on the point of
abandoning xview and going back to vanilla X11 :-(

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Dr David J. Pritchard			(the Dr is to distinguish from
					a student of the same name!)	
Electronics and Computer Science	
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