[5657] in testers
Re: Issues with athena 9.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Jul 20 13:48:39 2003
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:48:37 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 20 Jul 2003
at 13:34:10 -0400 in <1058722449.1470.33.camel@error-messages.mit.edu>:
> You need to fix your .cshrc not to generate output. See
> <http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/#profileout>. The problem is
> more visible in Red Hat 9 because they introduced a default LESSOPEN
> variable. (Which is kind of neat; try running less on a directory or a
> .tar.gz file. But not on Solaris.)
I wonder how widespread this is.
I suppose it is probably not worth adding a heuristic to check for it
(e.g. test for the presence of .athena-cshrc-sane-9.2, and if unset, run
csh and check for output, and pop a gdialog to the user explaining
the situation and pointing them at a stock answer or OLC or
what-have-you).
--jhawk
