ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (06/04/88)
Although I have used ELLE very heavily (I just wrote a 650 page book using it), and it works absolutely flawlessly on my machine, other people have been unable to get it to work it all. It writes random junk on the screen. I have already told them to check: - do you have the tty driver with ANSI codes - is your termcap ok - is TERM=minix and exported The answer is yes, yes, and yes, and it still gives junk. Has anyone else encountered problems like this or does anyone have any ideas? (I presume ELLE is widely used, since it is so much better than mined and ed, but I really don't know for sure.) Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (06/08/88)
In article <1897@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >Although I have used ELLE very heavily (I just wrote a 650 page book using it), >and it works absolutely flawlessly on my machine, other people have been >unable to get it to work it all. It writes random junk on the screen. >Has anyone else encountered problems like this or does anyone have any ideas? I don't recognise your symptoms, but I have had major problems with uuencoded binaries which come across Bitnet. For some reason, the bitnet transfer mechanisms think it is their duty to remove all trailing blanks from everything that they touch. The people who were unable to get elle to work may be on bitnet. Somebody posted diffs to the Minix uudecode to compensate for this "feature" right after 1.2 was posted. -- Glen Overby Bitnet: ncoverby@ndsuvax UUCP: {uunet, ihnp4!umn-cs}!ndsuvax!ncoverby