jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey) (10/29/88)
I just managed to bring up X Windows (X11R3) on my A/UX Mac II.
Everything seems to work pretty well but I have a problem.
(Actually I have two problems. All my non-local windows keep
disappearing whenever the "Recieve overflow" ethernet problem occurs
which is several times an hour! What a pain. Please work on this!)
What I would like to ask for help about is terminfo. The X people
were kind enough to include termcap and terminfo descriptions of the
terminal type "xterm" with X11R3. Unfortunately, in order to install
the terminfo description I need to use tic(1M). Tic seems to require
the original terminfo.src file which doesn't seem to be included in
the A/UX 1.0 distribution. Is there anyway for me to install my
terminfo description of xterm without the terminfo.src file?
I knew I should have compiled rn to use termcap instead of terminfo.
--Jim Dempsey--
BBN Communications
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jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey) (11/02/88)
Thanks to Dave Payne at Apple for pointing out that the already
pre-compiled terminfo files for xterm are distributed with X11R3 in
the directory server/ddx/macII. So you don't need to use tic yourself
after all.
I also assume this implies that you can't use tic on A/UX 1.0 if your
terminal description has a "use=" in it. Otherwise, the X Consortium
would not have resorted to including the precompiled files with X11R3.
[ Continuing saga of the "Recieve overflow" ethernet problem: I now
have a crontab entry which says "* * * * * /etc/ifconfig ae0 up" to
force the network "up" every minute. This brute force approach helps a
little. Has this problem been found? Fixed in 1.1??? ]
Thanks again to Dave Payne and the X Consortium.
--Jim Dempsey--
BBN Communications
jjd@bbn.com (ARPA Internet)
..!{decvax, harvard, wjh12, linus}!bbn!jjdhugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel) (11/02/88)
jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey) wrote: > I also assume this implies that you can't use tic on A/UX 1.0 if your > terminal description has a "use=" in it. Otherwise, the X Consortium > would not have resorted to including the precompiled files with X11R3. I have used the program captoinfo on the NeWS termcaps to generate the terminfo source that I distribute wiht MacNews. Both the nterm and the psterm terminfos have use= in them and tic has no problem with them. ||ugh Daniel hugh@toad.com Grasshopper Group, 415/668-5998 hugh@xanadu.com 212 Clayton St. San Francisco CA94117