pst@ack.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) (12/05/90)
A long time ago I fixed this bug, but I'm at a complete loss to remember what it was or what needed hacking... someone? Just recently I built emacs-18.55 from scratch using the patches found on apple.com. (built under A/UX v2) I found the same bug that used to plague emacs under earlier versions of A/UX (1.0/1.1) and that is that it seems to have problems communicating with subprocesses. I think it's probably a broken understanding of the PTY driver, but has anyone already identified and fixed this bug? example of bug: M-x shell does not work. You never get a prompt, input never seems to make it to the shell. The shell process DOES start up, but it's controlling tty is "?" rather than a pty. Paul
rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) (12/05/90)
pst@ack.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) writes: >Just recently I built emacs-18.55 from scratch using the patches found on >apple.com. (built under A/UX v2) I found the same bug that used to plague >emacs under earlier versions of A/UX (1.0/1.1) and that is that it seems >to have problems communicating with subprocesses. I think it's probably >a broken understanding of the PTY driver, but has anyone already identified >and fixed this bug? I believe so. Check out the patches for Emacs 18.55 available on afsg.apple.com. I've been using those for some time with no problems on handling subprocesses on ttys. Alas, I don't know exactly what the problem was, but Ron Flax at afsg.apple.com fixed it. (As I recall, the patches for Emacs on apple.com had other problems as well, which were all solved by going to the Ron Flax-patched version.) >example of bug: > M-x shell >does not work. You never get a prompt, input never seems to make it to >the shell. The shell process DOES start up, but it's controlling tty is >"?" rather than a pty. Hmm. Well, it looks like the shell is still created with controlling tty as '?', but the shell prompt appears as normal, and interaction with the shell works just fine. I've got a shell running in the other window right now as I write this. -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Try looking in the Yellow Pages under 'Psychotics'." -- Michael Santana
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (12/11/90)
In article <1990Dec5.013041.7970@servalan.uucp> rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes: > > M-x shell > >does not work. I FTP'ed emacs, and sometimes I have problems with M-X shell. I *always* have problems with M-x grep. I "solved" this by either using emacs -nw or if I am using X11R4: emacs </dev/null & -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett
dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) (06/07/91)
What is the bare minimum I need to run Emacs under A/UX? I thought
the binary from aux.support.apple.com would be all I need, so I got
aux.patches/unsupport/2.0/emacs-18.55.bi from a.s.a.c. The file was
compressed, so I uncompressed it. After uncompressing it and trying
to run it, I got a core dump. Did I get the right file, and if so,
what am I doing wrong? Since the source is so big I'd rather not try
to recompile it.
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Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
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