[4610] in SIPB bug reports
tin under solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sun May 22 00:48:10 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 00:47:50 EDT
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
The currently installed version of tin has a number of problems under
solaris, related to reading input from the keyboard. Particularly,
its handling of default choices (things like: ``foo [ynq]? (y)'') is
often wrong (it says the default choice is `y', I hit return, it acts
as if I chose `n'. Shabby tells me it DTRT if I use Enter instead of
return). More annoying is the behavior from the kill/auto-selection
screen, where it asks you to make a choice by hitting space to toggle
and CR to accept the choice and go on. None of Return, Enter, C-m, or
C-j will convince it to go on, and the user is basically stuck, unless
they happen to be able to do sick things to the process.
My guess is that the guy who thought he'd done a simple port of tin to
solaris was mistaken.
