[1691] in Athena Bugs
Re: bad tek mode in current xterm on vax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Mon Jan 23 03:27:55 1989
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Jan 89 19:36:30 -0500.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 03:27:30 EST
> I believe the tek mode bug lies not with the xterm, which works fine
> on John Kohl's gpx, but rather in the display server for monochrome
> monitors. I got a 5.5T binary which worked fine on a gpx under 5.5T,
> but it illegal-instruction-core-dumps when I use it on a monochrome
> vs2000 under 6.0R. I believe this was an R2 xterm. When I started it
> with -t, it just died. when I selected the tek window showing option,
> it put the window up, but died when I tried to change to it.
well, joe, on my vs2000 running 6.0R this is not a problem (xterm -t
fires up an xterm and puts it on the screen, and puts a prompt inside
it <which responds when i tap the enter key, etc.>). maybe you have
some pathological collection of resources which help this along?
-- Henry
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