[16089] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.8: 8.2 sgi release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 2 03:25:00 1998
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 03:24:49 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Karen Walrath N1XUL <karen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, phils@MIT.EDU, thg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16084] in Athena Bugs"
As far as I know, all of this behavior should have been the same in
8.1, although the update may have reverted changes you made to root's
dotfiles under the 8.1 release (look for a /.login.old or other
/.foo.old files to see).
> Something is setting the display variable to :0.0
To ":0", you mean? That would be .login. This is borrowed from
root's .profile under IRIX, but it seems to be relying on REMOTEHOST
being set for a remote login. I'm not sure if we should just take it
out or try to ensure that REMOTEHOST gets set. Probably take it out.
> In addition, neither the delete or backspace keys work.
> (You simply get an echo'ed ^?.)
There's no way to solve this problem. On the Sun (and on most other
platforms), the default erase character in the tty settings is ASCII
127. On SGIs, it's 8. Trying to change the default on an
operating-system-wide basis creates no end of trouble, and we've never
made an attempt to do so. You can put "stty erase '^?'" in root's
.login file, but that's not a fix, only a change.
> Neither of these are problems if I telnet in as a normal
> user. Delete works fine, and display is set correctly.
If I telnet into an SGI, delete does not work properly. I'm not sure
how it would (although stty commands in the normal user's dotfiles
would certainly affect things). Note that tcsh will accept either an
ASCII 8 or an ASCII 127 as a backspace.
