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NetProb ticket #1116, decmips 7.6G: RS6000 (meta key broken in xrn)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sao@MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 21 15:36:50 1993
From: sao@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 15:34:32 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: sao@MIT.EDU
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>Subject: decmips 7.6G: RS6000
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 20:57:10 EST
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>System name: momoney
>Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G
>Display type: PMAG-DV
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>I am filing this bug report from a user's question in olc.
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>What were you trying to do?
>trying to invoke meta (alt) key in xrn or xmh on a RS6000
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>What's wrong:
>It does not work. For example, in the compose window of xmh, meta-i is
>suppose to insert a file, but no prompt appears for filename
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>What should have happened:
>On all other platforms, this works fine.
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>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>You can refer to olc pickup queue under user rnewman (topic: other)
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>NETPROB-NOTE:
>Note: sao Tue Dec 21 15:32:33 1993
>Richard thinks he remembers some hack to emacs on the RS6000 to make meta
work.> This may be a generic RS6000 bug. I'm forwarding the report to
bug-sipb, sin>ce they maintain xrn.>
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