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From: darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Making Pcomm work on MY UNIXpc
Message-ID: <653@bacchus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 04:49:32 GMT
Organization: The Humanities Forum - Research Triangle Park; Durham, NC
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This may not be a bug report, but rather more hidden "features" in 3.5, but
I had to make two changes to get Pcomm working right.  First, in setting
things up to use vt100 borders, after I did the:

			infocmp -I s4 > s4.ti

I had trouble doing the "tic s4.ti" because it kept telling me "At least one
synonym should begin with a letter."  To fix this, I used a crude patch that
may bring the whole system crashing to my feet, but it didn't seem to dammage
anything and it works.  I changed the first line from:

5425|AT&T UNIX PC Model 7300,

to

s4|5425|AT&T UNIX PC Model 7300,

Anyone who knows terminfo that can tell me what this will do?


Next problem - the line to be added to /etc/profile that reads

if [ -n "`tput tab`" ] ;then

should read

if [ -n "`tput tab` 2>&1" ] ;then

as the error is sent to stderr.  This could be just a "feature" of 3.5.
If you have another version, try both ways -- it won't hurt.

---

Thanks for the great program, Emmet.  Especially for the zmodem door.
That'll save me from doing all those ^A-4s and using the BACKdoor!

-darren
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