[8168] in Athena Bugs
Re: rsaix bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Coppeto)
Wed Sep 11 21:28:24 1991
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: network@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 11 Sep 91 20:54:28 -0400.
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 21:28:55 BST
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
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).
In fact, all of the name servers except lithium.lcs.mit.edu and
w20ns.mit.edu are running 7.2R. W20ns.mit.edu is running 7.2P. I
thought it was the job of the resolve library to deal with tacking on
the domain name before shipping off the query.
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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.
Out of curiosity, what applications have this expectation?
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What were you trying to do?
Use the hostname enviroment variable.
It was not set.
I think he means the hosttype variable. Though this is an evil variable
to use in many cases, could it not be set in the dot files?
