[25353] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.25: help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Dec 10 12:33:07 2003
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:31:22 -0500
To: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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This appears to be because "help" backgrounds htmlview.
>htmlview "$url" &
If you remove the ampersand, it works fine.
-Jon
At 11:33 AM -0500 12/10/2003, Erica H Peterson wrote:
>System name: cruella-de-vil.mit.edu
>Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.2.25 (with mkserv)
>Display type: ifb
>
>Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
>Window manager: sawfish
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
>Run "help" on athena.dialup
>
>What's wrong:
>
>On the non-X version of "help," the screen says "press spacebar or arrow
>keys to scroll down." None of these seem to work. A user called in to the
>OLC office with this complaint (using HostExplorer to connect) and I had
>the same problem ssh'ing to athena.dialup from one of the OLC machines.
>
>What should have happened:
>
>spacebar/arrow keys should work as advertised (scrolling)
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
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