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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3003 info on other platforms?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.184111.15942@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 18:41:11 GMT
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Here's one for the FAQ:


In article <1991Apr19.143446.28123@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) writes:
|> We're having trouble when we run info on platforms other than the
|> 6000s - info will come up and be useable, but somehow (xmodmap call in
|> /usr/bin/info?) the keyboard mapping gets seriously wedged (remapped), 
|> making the X session useless thereafter.  
|> 
|> We don't see this problem with the GA info, and I don't remember it 
|> being a problem under 3002.  Of course, this /usr/bin/info is new
|> for 3003...  
|> 
|> Has anyone else seen this?  Do you have a work-around?  Is it fixed
|> (again) in 3005?
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Pat Wilson
|> Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
|> paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu

There was a bug in the info script. Change the xrdb to xmodmap.

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