jgreen@modcomp.uucp (Joe Green) (10/28/90)
I wonder if any of you have seen this problem. When copying text from one xterm to another, the paste in the destination xterm seems to get stuck in a loop. It keeps pasting the text over and over again. I normally need to send a SIGTERM (using the xterm menu, so that is still working) in order to break out, which of course kills the program I was pasting to. The problem seems to be dependent on the length of the text being pasted. Never happens with one or two lines. The longer the lines, the fewer the lines required to make it happen. It seems to be dependent on how fast the target program can accept input (i.e., takes fewer lines to make it happen in "vi" than in "cat > /dev/null"). Perhaps xterm does something wrong if it blocks on a write to the pty? I'm going to continue looking into this myself, but I'm hoping someone who knows xterm better than me (not too tough a requirement :-) can help to solve this a little faster. I'm using X11R4. The code is current through Patch #18. The operating system is REAL/IX, a real-time UNIX based on System V. Any help will be very much appreciated. -- Joe Green jgreen@modcomp.UUCP Modular Computer Systems, Inc. modcomp!jgreen@uunet.UU.NET uunet!modcomp!jgreen -- Joe Green jgreen@modcomp.UUCP Modular Computer Systems, Inc. modcomp!jgreen@uunet.UU.NET uunet!modcomp!jgreen