[6990] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.2P: 2020
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 30 11:19:19 1991
To: ellis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 11:19:08 EST
> >What were you trying to do?
> > Run 2020 with DISPLAY unset.
> >
>
> Why. Under what circumstances would you have TERM set to "xterm" but DISPLAY
> not set?
OK, telnet to another machine. Don't set the DISPLAY when it asks you.
I do this quite a bit. I imagine that there must be others who do too.
> The design behavior of the scripts for running third party software is
> to always create a new window. Either the package does, or my script
> does. You are trying to get other behavior. My thought is that if you are
> knowledgeable enough to know to want to run 2020 in an existing xterm, you
> are knowledgeable enough to type "2020.r2" instead of 2020. So I need
> convincing that I should check both TERM and DISPLAY.
If all the third-party scripts are written like this, I think they all
should be changed. Rather than checking to see if TERM=xterm, why not
check and see if DISPLAY is set. You don't have to check for *both*
TERM and DISPLAY... It strikes me that this is the *right* thing to do
anyway, no?
Another problem I just ran into... the man subdir is not
world-read/execute, so no-one else can read the man pages.
-Chris.
