richb@sunchat.UUCP (Rich Burridge) (09/26/88)
Please reply to Peter Merel direct (pete@attila.esa.oz.au -or- ..!munnari!pete@attila.esa.oz) or to the comp.windows.x/xpert newsgroup/mailing list. ------Forwarded message------ From sunaus!acsnet Sun Sep 25 03:27:28 1988 Received: by sunaus.sun.oz (3.2/SMI-3.2) id AA05229; Sun, 25 Sep 88 01:56:32 EST Path: sunaus!metro!ipso!attila!pete From: pete@attila.esa.oz (Peter Merel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: 2 bugs in xterm Message-Id: <109@attila.esa.oz> Date: 20 Sep 88 03:03:56 GMT Organization: esa Lines: 29 To: richb Status: RO ESA is running XV11R2 on a network of Apollos (SR9.7, bsd4.2). BUG 1: I have noticed that some of my C shell aliases, which run fine outside of the X system, cock up badly running under xterm. A bit of running down showed that the problem lies with the C shell command1 `command2` construct which is supposed to execute command2 and feed its output to command1 as command line arguments. For some reason this does not happen, but instead the command hangs and can be terminated with a ctrl-c. BUG 2: Very wide xterms wrap characters on lines that are wider than the window width around to the start of the same line, overwriting the start of the line. Ordinary xterms don't. Anyone know what is going on? - I know work-arounds but I don't know what the actual problems are. Apologies in advance if these have already been dealt with - we've only recently set up for netnews. -- All opinions portrayed are fictional and any resemblance to real beliefs is purely coincidental. ..!munnari!pete@attila.esa.oz