bh@cs.brown.edu.UUCP (02/09/87)
Are there "officially" recognized bugs (as opposed to "features")
in the X.V10R4 "xterm" and are there "official" fixes to them?
In general I'm interested in any bug fixes to anything in X 10.4 before
I sit down and try to debug things (like: why does xterm sometimes die
during a resize?).
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The most recent "official" set of bug fixes to xterm from M.I.T. are contained in the 12/24 V10R4 distribution (aka "R4 update" for you early ftp'ers). This is the distribution being sent by the M.I.T. Software and Publications group. The only time we've seen xterm die on a resize is when we've caused an inconsistency between the kernel and the xterm binary on SIGWINCH. I've never seen xterm die on a consistent kernel (4.2 or 4.3). -Ralph
edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu.UUCP (02/10/87)
> Are there "officially" recognized bugs (as opposed to "features") > in the X.V10R4 "xterm" and are there "official" fixes to them? > In general I'm interested in any bug fixes to anything in X 10.4 before > I sit down and try to debug things (like: why does xterm sometimes die > during a resize?). I'll be putting xterm 6.6B on prang.Berkeley.EDU this week. It has several bug fixes (like dying when resizing the alternate screen and yanking text that fills the line) as well as making all the options consistent again (before -sb meant turn on the scrollbar while -tb meant turn off the titlebar, now it means always to turn on so titlebars are no the default as in previous versions). This should be the last in the 6.6 series. When I find the time, I work on version 7 of xterm, which should have some niceties, like a command that you can run within an xterm window to reconfigure that window (e.g., change the font, color, size, etc). Edward Moy Academic Computing Services University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@opal.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!opal!edmoy P.S. Prang is sick and goes up and down like a yo-yo. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but the person in charge is doing the best he can, considering he has a million more pressing things to do.