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From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: rn in pads
Message-ID: <1229@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 26 Jun 91 07:52:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.200106.4131@hobbes.mdc.com>
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In article <1991Jun25.200106.4131@hobbes.mdc.com>, johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen) writes:
=> I've recently gotten rn runnning on our Apollos, but I've noticed a few bizarre
=> things if I run it from a DM pad:
=> 
=>     o   When it starts up, it appears to go into a full VT100 emulation mode. 
=> Unfortunately, this means that I can't do nice things like cut&paste to an edit
=> pad, or scroll backwards.  Can this be disabled?
Not as far as I know, unless you wnat to keep presing return after every key :{

=> 
=>     o   The real problem, however, is that under some conditions rn doesn't exit
=> properly - it goes back to normal pad mode, but the prompt doesn't appear and
=> the input window doesn't accept any input.  CTL-Q fixes the problem, but there's
=> obviously something getting hung up.
Yup, it even might corrupt your /dev/ttyp9 :{ 
(Then rn will complain that it's not able to find /etc/termcap 8^( )
Fix this with crpty .
my rn used to be an alias:
	stty -cbreak; \
	/usr/local/bin/rn -F'''=>  ''' -g5 -H -S -hMessage-ID -hDate; \
     	stty -cbreak
And it kept me out of trouble most of the time. Now I'm using Xrn which i like
better. (Xecept for the fact that it's using nntp access which is ded slow :{ )
=> 
=> Does anybody have solutions to these problems, or should I just resign myself to
=> using xterm for news reading?
Even better: using Xrn.
=> 
=> [BTW, this is actually a cleverly disguised test of my news system - my
=> apologies if something screws up.]
It made it all the way upto here !)

ciao,
	Willem Jan
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