[10856] in Athena Bugs
Sun: more -c broken in 2.1 fixed in 2.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Aug 30 14:46:03 1993
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 14:45:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
DESTINATION: hotline@sun.com
SEVERITY CODE: 3
PRODUCT RELEASE: 2.1
OS RELEASE: 2.1
SYNOPSIS: more -c garbles text following long lines.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
If you use the -c option to the 'more' program to view a file with lines
longer than your xterm window is wide, the text following the line wrap
will be garbled.
This failure occurs under OpenWindows 3.1, OpenWindows 3.2, and remotely
logged in from DecStations.
We believe it is a bug in more, rather than a bug in Xterm.
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Submitted to sun hotline Thu Aug 26 19:15
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 07:51:38 PDT
From: Sawsan.Hamwi@Corp.Sun.COM (Sawsan Hamwi)
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: more -c garbles text following long lines.
Thank you for using the Software Support Hotline. Your call has
been dispatched and you should be receiving an email response or a
call back from an engineer shortly.
Please reference service order # 1370319 when calling in.
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 23:06:36 PDT
From: Allen.Carlson@Corp.Sun.COM (Allen Carlson)
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
Subject: Sun Service Order 1370319
Charlie Fulton
MIT
This is in response to Service Order 1370319 opened with Sun Microsystems via
hotline@sun.com.
Regarding: 'more -c' garbles text following long lines
You are correct in that this is a bug with the more command and not Xterm.
I have found numerous bugs filed against it. It is stated to have been fixed
in Solaris 2.2 and my testing verifies that. There is no indication given
from engineering that a patch will be issued for this. An upgrade to Sol2.2
is the solution at this time.
Thank you for using hotline@sun.com.
Allen Carlson
allen.carlson@corp.sun.com
Software Support Engineer
North America Solution Center
Sun Microsystems
P.S.
As you might be able to tell from the timestamp on this email,
I'm not available during the day. I work graves from Tuesday night
through Saturday morning. If you want further assistance out side
of these hours or wish to work this issue via phone, please dial
1-800-USA4SUN (872-4786), and ask that this Service Order be picked
up by a daytime engineer.
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Verified bug is gone on Solaris 2.2.
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