[754] in Athena Bugs
Re: VAX 6.0C: zwgc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Thu Sep 1 14:26:10 1988
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 01 Sep 88 10:08:56 -0400.
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 88 14:23:17 EDT
From: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Win writes:
> Why are the instructions to use
> /usr/etc/zwgc &
> when it backgrounds itself? ...
> WHERE DOES IT SAY THIS? NOTHING THE ZEPHYR GROUP RELEASED SAYS THIS.
> You should *NOT* put zwgc into the background, or else it won't go away
> on logout.
My apologies. I cannot recall the source of this information, so it's
not worth worrying about.
> Additionally, he asks about the ttymode option. Jerry required that the
> default be NO TTYMODE. The Zephyr team decided to implement this as a
> user-settable option, defaulting to doing what it does now (If you set
> 'fallback' to true, using zctl, this will happen automatically.).
Oh, well.
- Win
