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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Tcsh bugs, any fixes?
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 15:46:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 15:46:23 1987
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The recent posting of Paul Placeway's tcsh version 5.4 was most welcome,
but Rich Salz and I have found a couple of annoying bugs that we haven't 
been able to track down.  These all happen on a Sun 3 under SunOS 3.2, using 
the vanilla BSD 4.2 shell as the basis for tcsh (we didn't have 3.2 sources at 
that time).  They include:

	- Tcsh goes into a strange mode where it duplicates the
	  first few characters of every line it prints, but only
	  on "slow" terminals connected to serial ports.  ("Slow"
	  meaning the tty requires lots of padding.)

	- Every once in a while, tcsh will arbitrarily change your
	  kill character to ^W and leave you without a werase character,
	  even if you've bound ^W to backward-delete-word.

	- Using ~ to expand usenames will sometimes result in the
	  message "<cmd>: bad file number".

Has anyone else seen these?  Any fixes, or are our problems caused by using
the BSD csh sources instead of the Sun sources?  If there are fixes, please
send them to me, and I'll pass them along to Rich for posting ASAP in
comp.sources.unix.
-- 
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