jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) (09/19/89)
After installing PTF 1751 on AIX/RT, the "pg" command is no longer able (or willing) to figure out how many lines an aixterm window actually has. Before PTF 1751, it did this correctly; after 1751, it treats aixterm as if it were an ordinary ibm6152, with 25 lines. Restoring /bin/pg from the 2.2.1 Base Operating System diskettes solves the problem, so it is apparently the pg program itself that they broke. There certainly have been a *lot* of problems with PTF 1751. Perhaps with all the discussion and complaint in this newsgroup about notification and distribution of PTFs, the people at IBM have decided to "prove" their point about PTFs being "untested" software that "might" break something else, and thus justify their policies on this? I think I would rather believe this, than to believe that the people who prepare these things are getting less and less competent to produce working software, with a major new release coming up soon. jw
clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000) (09/20/89)
From article <571@pan.UUCP>, by jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson): > After installing PTF 1751 on AIX/RT, the "pg" command is no longer able > (or willing) to figure out how many lines an aixterm window actually has. > Before PTF 1751, it did this correctly; after 1751, it treats aixterm as > if it were an ordinary ibm6152, with 25 lines. Restoring /bin/pg from If you have ANY choice, do not put 1751 on. It breaks NFS, DS and ... getty (!). My serial ports stopped working for login after applying this PTF. Lucky thing I had a 1749 machine around to steal the getty from. It looks like the new getty screws up the baud rate or parity somehow. -- Ed Clarke acheron!clarke