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From: courtney@tonto.es.com (Courtney Goeltzenleuchter)
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Subject: Re: Meta key under RiscWindows 4.00
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:34:23 GMT
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In article <4967@skye.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> I just upgraded my RS2030 to RiscOS 4.52 and RiscWindows 4.00, and my
> the "Alt" doesn't work (ie it doesn't set the eighth bit) in xterms.
> It does work in emacs windows (though not in emacs inside an xterm).
> 
> Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
> AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
> Edinburgh University.                UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin

I replied directly to the original poster, but seeing that someone else has
the problem I thought I'd better post what I found out.

Anyway, the 4.52 release has a nice little blurb that says "ptys now understand
the ISTRIP flag."  What this means is that now pty's (connections made by
xterms and other things) will be stripped to 7 bits if ISTRIP is set.  Well,
by default, ISTRIP is set.  You can unset it with the SYSV stty command by
doing '/bin/stty -istrip'.

The only other problem is that the BSD stty command confuses you by always
saying that pass8 is enabled.  It lies.  MIPS didn't put the kernel code in
that translated pass8 to -istrip and vice versa.  So, for the 4.52 release
you have to use the SYSV stty command to change the ISTRIP setting.

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