[11084] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6L: olc from dash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 27 16:58:46 1993
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 16:58:37 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [11030]
I know I responded to this before, but I can't figure out where.
But since I have a little more information now, I'll do it again.
> What's wrong:
> In the OLC window I get, the BackSpace key does nothing, and the
> backspace key is non-destructive. I suspect the ^H chars are being
> inserted but ignored.
echoe is not getting set on the tty when the backgrounded dash runs
an xterm. It is also the case that "xterm -e foo &" will not have
a properly configured tty.
The Gross Hack of the Week is a program called inittty, which is used
thus:
xterm -e inittty foo
This program will appear soon in an /srvd/patch near you, along with a
new version of dash modified to, er, appropriately take advantage of it,
and followed up by new menus to make it all happen.
Thank you for your bug report, and have a nice day. :-)
Craig
