sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (12/14/88)
My co-worker James Conley writes: >DESCRIPTION: > When starting xterm from uwm with an "rlogin" to our local vax (Ultrix > 2.2 VAX8800) various programs that diddle with curses cause xterm to > freeze up in such a way that the window must be killed. > After some more investigation, it appears that this is a problem with SR10 rlogin (or the pseudotty driver) and not with X. When, as part of the rlogin protocol, an out-of-band message comes back instructing the local rlogin to change terminal modes or window size or something on the local pseudo-tty, somehow things get botched up. I don't have enough source to know what's wrong with the pseudootty driver. In fact we don't have any source here, I've been experimenting with a copy of the Ultrix rlogin source, which is probably pretty similar. James suggested "Buy a Sun" as a fix - well, that's one way, but a cheaper way is to use "rlogin host -8" instead of "rlogin host", which avoids doing much of the special oob() processing. I'll write up the details and submit this bug to Apollo through the proper channels if I can figure out how "mkapr" works. ..Steve -- Steve Hayman Workstation Manager Computer Science Department Indiana U. sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu