[7964] in Athena Bugs
OLH fixes needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kcunning@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 17 16:22:12 1991
From: kcunning@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, kcunning@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, cavan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 91 16:22:18 EDT
Two fixes need to be made for the release:
- OLH should print out the message "Help is on the way ..." as soon as it
is called, to let users know something is happening. (For the Motif client,
we might also add the message, "Help window should appear soon...")
This should happen whether or not help is backgrounded.
- The help command should auto-background itself if it calls the Motif
client (i.e., in an X session). We should be able to tell users "Just
type 'help'" and have it do the right thing in all cases; we should not
have to instruct users in the use of "&" to call a help facility.
Although this is against convention for most programs, it is appropriate in
this case. (We should include a flag that can force the program to remain
in the foreground for users who prefer that; Lucien might have already added
this capability -- we talked about this before but it somehow did not make
it into the release.)
--Kevin
