Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!sendai!rich
From: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Gnuemacs, X11, and Sequents
Message-ID: <458@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 19 Mar 89 12:27:41 GMT
References: <1326@hydra.riacs.edu>
Reply-To: rich@sendai.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
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Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor
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In article <1326@hydra.riacs.edu> doyle@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Dee Doyle) writes:
>I am having trouble running Gnuemacs 18.53 (X11 upgrade) on a Sequent Balance.

>Can anyone give me information that would confirm or deny this?  Are
>there known bugs in the SIGIO fcntl?  Are there patches - or do we
>have to hack up the source to fix it?

No.  add (set-input-mode nil nil) to your
/usr/local/emacs/lisp/default.el.  rms points out that this is likely
(and does) prevent C-g from being a true interrupt but at least it is
usable.

Consider this a workaround until (the non-existant time when) sequent
comes up to 4.3.
-- 
rich.