bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) (06/05/90)
I'm in the process of setting up a UUCP node based around Mr. Dillon's UUCP v1.05D or whichever it is; anyway, I'm in the intermediate stages and have been playing around with a few of the commands (after making the appropriate assigns and such). I run the ARP shell with CB (Console Buffer v1.1, which adds a scroll bar to the shell window and saves all text in a buffer) among other things. Anyway, the "man" command seems to have a strange interaction with CB: when man is run, CB dies. Cleanly, so far as I can tell with Xoper 2.2, but it does exit. I've tried it with a few different text readers, too. CB just seems to up and quit when "man" is run. This is potentially ANNOYING and if anyone knows what is going on, please reply. It's affecting more than one of us locally... . <<<<Infinite K>>>> -- |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, FIDO 1:104/421.2 or Arvada 68K (303)424-9831| |"My brothers and sisters all hated me,'cause I was an only child!"-Weird Al| |"Do I detect the smell of burning martyr?" - Basil Fawlty | *AMIGA POWER* |
dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) (06/08/90)
>In article <1255@nyx.UUCP> bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes: >I'm in the process of setting up a UUCP node based around Mr. Dillon's UUCP >v1.05D or whichever it is; anyway, I'm in the intermediate stages and have >... >CB just seems to up and quit when "man" is run. This is potentially ANNOYING >and if anyone knows what is going on, please reply. It's affecting more than >one of us locally... > >. <<<<Infinite K>>>> MAN simply runs the RFilter command in the background (RFilter is a Config file entry normally set to 'dme'. I have no idea why this might effect CB but frankly, the problem is probably with CB. You can change RFilter to any display program you want, or should be able to at least. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon 891 Regal Rd. Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA
bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) (06/09/90)
In article <dillon.4244@overload.UUCP> dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) writes: >>In article <1255@nyx.UUCP> bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes: >>CB just seems to up and quit when "man" is run. This is potentially ANNOYING > > MAN simply runs the RFilter command in the background (RFilter is a > Config file entry normally set to 'dme'. I have no idea why this might > effect CB but frankly, the problem is probably with CB. OK, I'll buy that... (I have RFilter set to execute "rd", the file reader from the old Access! term package - it's the nicest I've seen, really) but it is odd. I mean, "rd" doesn't affect CB at all by itself. I've also now noticed that upon disconnection of uucico (which I run manually) CB exits too. I believe the program executes rnews or some other program to unpack the messages at about this time. Too bad the author of CB is not here on the net! While I'm here... (you didn't think you were going to get away that fast, now, did you?) I just wanted to say how unexpectedly easy it was to set everything up once I broke down and read the docs. I had a little help from a fellow user, but the thing is my setup worked FIRST TIME. I expected anything but that, from my experiences setting up a FIDO point node... (well, I should say almost first time - it functioned but because my fellow user told me to set debug to 9 it printed out masses of crud to the screen slowing the transfer to glacial. A reset to 0 and it's running like a champ) Dmail is very usable as well. I wish "anews" was a little less primitive in a lot of ways, but I'm sure this will be fixed in the future (I did try "NewsView 2.32" as an alternative but it wouldn't recognize any of the messages in my News dir). One thing that would be VERY NICE if the software (not sure exactly what does it) would NOT renumber the messages and do all that other tomfoolery all the time. It would be a lot easier to keep track of news for me if that could be changed. I have the diff of news.c posted a while back that fixes the delete bug, so I won't be complaining about that today... (I do own Lattice and I know C but I'm new to the Amiga-specific programming world and have not got far into the Lattice manual yet, so wish me luck compiling it... yes, I do have DICE but no room on the HD for it yet). My only other problem is lack of an "Organization:" line which was half the reason I set up Orac in the first place - I thought the "Organization" line in the config file took care of that, but it doesn't seem to show up in my posts! Anyway, well done!, and I anxiously await v1.06! . <<<<Infinite K>>>> Now available at ...uunet!isis!nyx!orac!bscott, and possibly bscott@orac.UUCP? -- |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, FIDO 1:104/421.2 or Arvada 68K (303)424-9831| |"My brothers and sisters all hated me,'cause I was an only child!"-Weird Al| |"Do I detect the smell of burning martyr?" - Basil Fawlty | *AMIGA POWER* |