Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!rich
From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo BSD4.2 dumb terminal stty -tabs problem
Message-ID: <7940@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 88 15:35:28 GMT
References: <1109@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
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Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: DOMAIN\IX BSD4.2 stty tabs

In article <1109@oakhill.UUCP> abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair) writes:
>
>Hi, I hope some of you more experienced Apollo Domain/IX users can help
>me with a terminal setup problem I am having. 
>Heres the real problem, the Apollo just ignores the -tabs.  From various
>tests I have tried, it only seems to recognize the erase & kill options,
>which I do use succesfully..
>
>To indicate how far I have gone in trying to get around this, I wrote
>a c program to use ioctl and tty(4) commands to try and set the -tabs
>option.  This seems to work inside the program, but -tabs is reset to 
>tabs as soon as the program exits.
>
>...  The Apollo I am using is an DN660
>running Aegis 9.2.3(Yes, I now that is old) with Mentor 5.1.  If any
>other information is needed, please Email requests directly to me and
>I will also post the information.
>
>Alan Bair
>
>PH#  (512) 440-2336
>UUCP {ut-sally,im4u}!oakhill!turbinia!abair




     Well, I've also been realy annoyed by this problem, and others
     related to incomplete/unimplemented sio/tty stuff for months.  We
are running sr9.5.1, so I don't believe your system is outdated in this
respect.  From what I understand (* please correct me if I'm wrong *),
Apollo does not plan to fix/completely implement the sio stuff till
SR10 when, I am told, everything will work just like *real BSD* (gettty
and everything)!



     Now, a question of my own...  Does anyone know if "/com/sh" has a
feature similar to the Bourne shell's "trap" command which allows a
shell script to trap  and handle signals/exceptions/interupts/faults?
Thanx in advance.


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