[815] in Athena Bugs
Re: zwgc -ttymode (6.0C)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Tue Sep 6 00:07:28 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Coppeto <tjcoppet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 05 Sep 88 03:38:35 -0400.
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 88 00:06:36 EDT
>When you login in without a display variable set you get a message from
>zwgc telling you about 'zwgc -ttymode' and look at the man page for zwgc
>for details- neither place informs you that zwgc should be executed as
>/usr/etc/zwgc- which is the only way it will work under the current setup.
>Users are bound to be confused by the message /usr/athena/zwgc generates.
Well, I haven't heard of the solution you proposed, but I do know that
"zctl set fallback on" will permit zwgc to DTRT wrt starting up on a
plain-text tty. As far as I know, this isn't documented in the
manpage either (I think it was a last-minute change by the zephyr
team).
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
