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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: UW: help!
Message-ID: <1203@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 20:59:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 20:59:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 12:47:38 EDT
Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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Well, the UW program for the amiga *almost* works.

The uw server on the Unix end handles creating new cshell windows just
fine.  However, when started, the uw server insists on setting the
termcap to be adm31, instead of the ansi termcap I want.  Then, when I
try to run Emacs with uwtool, everything breaks because Emacs thinks
it is talking to an adm31, when in reality it is talking to an Amiga
ANSI window.

The man page for uw claims that you can make a .uwrc file that
contains commands to be executed when the uw server is started.  If
the file is executable, it is directly executed, else a shell is
spawned to interpret it.  Fine.

So I try putting in a .uwrc that will set the termcap back to ansi.
When I start up the uw server, it kills my initial uw window, and
nothing happens after that (something bad is happening when it is
executing .uwrc; I don't know what.  Same result when .uwrc is
executable and non-executable).  Since you can't control uw if a
window is not present, I have to reboot, run VT100, reconnect, log in,
and kill off the runaway uw server.

Okay, so what am I doing wrong?  Any form of help would be
appreciated.  Email is probably best unless everyone else is having
the same trouble I'm experiencing and can benefit from the info.

				--M
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Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
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Amiga hackers do it graphically, with lots of sound effects.
Amiga users do it with their gadgets and proportional sliders.
Aztec will do it, but only if you make it long.
Workbench users would do it, but they need .info first.
CLI users can't do it...they're stuck in their Shell.
Metacomco did it to us with AmigaDOS.

"Mac owners dream in black and white, Atari owners dream in color...
but Amigoids dream using Hold and Modify!"