[comp.sources.bugs] problems with tcsh

rit@lifia.UUCP (08/28/87)

I've just installed tcsh on a vax 750 running 4.3, using diff on 4.2 csh
sources. It runs perfectly well when invoked from another shell, but will not
run on a login (when the passwd entry has been set properly).
The symptoms are depending on the terminal : 
runs well on a sun terminal
runs bad on a hp 2392A, or a plain vt100 terminal : garbage characters, seems
to be a problem with flow control.
does not run at all on lsi adm11 : any key I hit makes the terminal beep
(except h and w which send a CR)

When I manage to type csh, all the problems disappear, even when I call
another tcsh.

So I suspect something with the initialization of the terminal, but I can't
get the state of the terminal under tcsh since it all ends up in garbage.
From what I can glimpse, a stty gives the good parametres (speed, tabs etc).

As I'm far to have the beginning of the look of an apprentice unix guru, I
guess i must miss some point...



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