[7592] in SIPB bug reports
Thomas Bushnell, BSG: Re: linux 8.4.1: xterm/less
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 7 23:12:16 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 23:12:12 -0400
Forwarding, in case tehre are bug-sipb people who don't read sipb@mit.edu.
Jonathon
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To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: linux 8.4.1: xterm/less
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From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 07 Jun 2000 20:07:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:37:48 -0400"
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Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> System name: alice-whacker.mit.edu
> Type and version: i686 8.4.1
> Display type:
>
> Shell: /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/betatcsh
> Window manager: /afs/.athena/project/windowmgr/arch/@sys/bin/vtwm.gamma
>
> What were you trying to do?
>
> Run less.
>
> What's wrong:
>
> Either xterm, less, termcap, or terminfo is botched somehow:
>
> <9> alice-whacker:~> echo $TERM
> xterm
> <10> alice-whacker:~> less /etc/shells
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> /etc/shells (press RETURN)
>
>
> What should have happened:
>
> less should use the terminal correctly.
I remember this problem; I'm sorry I didn't recall it at the time you
were zephyring.
less is compiled against older libraries that look in the old place
for termcap. It needs to be recompiled against the newer library for
use in i386_linux22. Your attention is hereby redirected to the
maintainers of the sipb locker who were told of the problem some time
ago but haven't yet had a chance to fix it.
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