johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen) (06/26/91)
I've recently gotten rn runnning on our Apollos, but I've noticed a few bizarre
things if I run it from a DM pad:
o When it starts up, it appears to go into a full VT100 emulation mode.
Unfortunately, this means that I can't do nice things like cut&paste to an edit
pad, or scroll backwards. Can this be disabled?
o The real problem, however, is that under some conditions rn doesn't exit
properly - it goes back to normal pad mode, but the prompt doesn't appear and
the input window doesn't accept any input. CTL-Q fixes the problem, but there's
obviously something getting hung up.
Does anybody have solutions to these problems, or should I just resign myself to
using xterm for news reading?
[BTW, this is actually a cleverly disguised test of my news system - my
apologies if something screws up.]
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Tel: (314)234-4341wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun25.200106.4131@hobbes.mdc.com>, johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen) writes:
=> I've recently gotten rn runnning on our Apollos, but I've noticed a few bizarre
=> things if I run it from a DM pad:
=>
=> o When it starts up, it appears to go into a full VT100 emulation mode.
=> Unfortunately, this means that I can't do nice things like cut&paste to an edit
=> pad, or scroll backwards. Can this be disabled?
Not as far as I know, unless you wnat to keep presing return after every key :{
=>
=> o The real problem, however, is that under some conditions rn doesn't exit
=> properly - it goes back to normal pad mode, but the prompt doesn't appear and
=> the input window doesn't accept any input. CTL-Q fixes the problem, but there's
=> obviously something getting hung up.
Yup, it even might corrupt your /dev/ttyp9 :{
(Then rn will complain that it's not able to find /etc/termcap 8^( )
Fix this with crpty .
my rn used to be an alias:
stty -cbreak; \
/usr/local/bin/rn -F'''=> ''' -g5 -H -S -hMessage-ID -hDate; \
stty -cbreak
And it kept me out of trouble most of the time. Now I'm using Xrn which i like
better. (Xecept for the fact that it's using nntp access which is ded slow :{ )
=>
=> Does anybody have solutions to these problems, or should I just resign myself to
=> using xterm for news reading?
Even better: using Xrn.
=>
=> [BTW, this is actually a cleverly disguised test of my news system - my
=> apologies if something screws up.]
It made it all the way upto here !)
ciao,
Willem Jan
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