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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Roell's port of Xview2.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.104819.26082@newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: 27 Feb 91 10:48:19 GMT
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In-Reply-To: grant@gouche.UUCP's message of 26 Feb 91 17:48:32 GMT

>1) code in the xview library wasn't handling meta modifiers
>   properly so I couldn't use the quick key combinations in textedit.

I never looked at this part of the code. But it seems to be a bug in XView 2.0
itself.

>2) cmdtool is flakey unless you turn off scrollbars.

On a SPARC 1 I had quite similar problems ...

>3) cmdtool uses pts and thus dosn't seem to support TIOCWINSIZE or
>   job control.

The real big problem is the the ttysw stuff in XView 2.0 is sooo BSD 
specific, that I failed to get all things working. For example in BSD
there is a packet-mode for transmitting date between pty and application.
Also the signal-handling of the ptys is broken, since the is no
TIOCPGRP in SysV. But I think, the most XView application still work under
SysV 3.2.

- Thomas
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