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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Minor problems with ELM and A/UX
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.131729.3514@panix.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 91 13:17:29 GMT
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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I've built the latest version of ELM for A/UX recently and it seems to
function quite well. But there are a few little problems that I'd like to
fix up.

1) Often, when I ues job control to go off and do something, when I come back
to ELM it no longer acts as soon as I type a character- it waits for a return
(or newline, I suppose).  Clearly it's somehow getting confused about ioctls
(or at least, that's the way it seems to me). I'm guessing that I can look
for where it traps job-control signals, and do an appropriate ioctl right
after the return point. But what's causing this? "rn" does the same sort of
thing and it's not victim to this weirdness.

2) Occasionally, when I use fg to return to ELM, it prints "Alarm Clock" and
dies rather sloppily, leaving my mailbox in /tmp.  Does ELM not like staying
in the background for long periods of time?

Thanks,
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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