[3929] in testers
Re: irix 6.5 more tty modes problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Apr 5 17:42:06 1999
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 1999 18:37:42 EST."
<199904032337.SAA08943@Implementor.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:37:34 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> if you type a key quickly after "more" finishes displaying a screen,
> then instead of acting on it, it will just print that key, and any
> other keys you type, until you hit return. Then it will act on all of
> the keys at once (including the return), but once you're in this mode,
> you're stuck in it until you exit more.
Further testing revealed that the problem only seems to occur in
"man", and is apparently introduced by "ul" (man pipes its output
into "ul -b | more -s -f"). I was unable to reproduce the problem
after doing setenv MANPAGER "more -s -f".
[It's still possible that the problem is a race condition in more,
though, and eliminating ul from the pipeline merely lessens the
likelihood of it occurring.]
I'll report this to SGI, but we might want to just use the MANPAGER
workaround.
Bob
