sridhar@surya.usc.edu (M. A. Sridhar) (10/04/90)
I run X11R3 on an Apollo DN3000 with Domin/IX 10.2, and I use xterm to log into a DECstation on the local net. And I built GNU's bash to run on the DECstation. The problem is that when I run bash, and execute say ls -FC under it, about half the output does not show up! But bash behaves just fine when I dial in directly to the DECstation or log into it directly. This seems to be a problem with Apollo's xterm combined with bash. Has anyone else seen this? BTW, the version of bash I built is 1.05 with patches, ftp'ed from uunet.uu.net. I tried rlogin'ing to another Sun workstation that runs bash 1.01, but there things work just fine! I'm puzzled. Any help is appreciated. Sridhar
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (10/04/90)
> I run X11R3 on an Apollo DN3000 with Domin/IX 10.2, and I use xterm > to log into a DECstation on the local net. (Do you mean you run rlogin from within a local xterm, or you run xterm remotely displaying on the Apollo?) > And I built GNU's bash to run on the DECstation. The problem is that > when I run bash, and execute say ls -FC under it, about half the > output does not show up! Look more closely. Try, in particular, % /bin/echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz I predict you will see either abdghkmnpsuvyz or cefijloqrtwx (The following prompt may appear in a strange place, like on top of the "ab" in the first example.) If so, then look at your ls output. Notice that each character ('a', say) is either consistently present or consistently absent. If this is true, your problem is almost certainly parity. Most likely, your stty settings are set to generate parity bits, which are being passed through rlogin to the xterm, which then botches them. (It could be ignoring them entirely, it could be trying to display nonexistent characters from its font, or it could be doing something else; further experimentation might be able to narrow down the possibilities.) I seem to recall reading somewhere that some versions of bash have a bug having to do with the "parity" bits of characters. I don't know whether this is related, but it might be worth looking into. (Do things still get dropped if you use another shell, like sh or csh?) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu