[8167] in Athena Bugs
rsaix bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed Sep 11 20:54:34 1991
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 20:54:28 -0400
To: boogles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: network@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
This message is intended to explain the current state of the RISC/6000
with respect to your bug reports. We will be attempting to address most
of these in some fashion in the next release. Layering Athena on a
vendor operating system, which we cannot alter, does create some
user-interface problems. Other subsystems were not completed due to
lack of time.
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What were you trying to do?
"telnet schwyz.ai"
The machine could not find the host.
"telnet schwyz.ai.mit.edu" works.
What's wrong:
There is just a small mistake in the named.boot files.
Currently, named does not exist at all on the RISC/6000 (at least not
one that supports Hesiod lookups). Instead, we are forwarding off of
the MIT nameservers. This would indicate that the MIT nameservers are
running old software (pre-7.2).
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What were you trying to do?
Use the backspace key on the keyboard.
It truly is mapped to the backspace character ^H.
Unfortunately, this is the default for AIX... Most of the release, such
as Emacs, has been taught to understand the Backspace key. However,
re-mapping it to Delete will conflict with AIX applications that expect
it to behave as Backspace. We are not in a position where we can
recompile the AIX operating system, or all the third-party applications
that exist outside of MIT.
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What were you trying to do?
Use the arrow keys in the csh.
They give the codes instead of the proper action.
What were you trying to do?
Use the hostname enviroment variable.
It was not set.
Both of these problems are due to the lack of tcsh on this system. We
replaced the standard vendor c-shell with an Athena shell, but technical
problems prevented us from being able to port our shell to this platform
at the current time.
In 7.4, we expect that we will be making a new version of this shell
available on all platforms. However, because many vendors include other
features in their shells, we may be suggesting that you change your
shell to /bin/athena/tcsh to get our "line-editing" features and other
features. I believe you can find out more about this in the User
Release Notes and the System Release Notes.
-Richard
