bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) (02/09/89)
I am trying to install UNaXcess 1.00.02 on my AT&T UNIX-pc, running system
software version 3.5. I have compiled it, installed it, and it works --
with one major problem. When you first start it, it asks you to register,
either as GUEST, NEW, or by your existing ID. If I enter either GUEST or
SYSOP (the only current existing ID), everything works just fine. But if
I try to register as a new user using NEW, all succeeding prompts are
garbled: They print every other character of the prompt down the left margin
of the terminal. This same behavior happened when I compiled it with the old
3.0 system software; I had hoped that compiling it with the newer software
would clear this up, but no such luck. I tried contacting Mr. Allbery, but
I have not received any reply over several weeks. Can anyone help me with
this problem? Anybody else use UNaXcess on a UNIX-PC? What other BBSs are
available?
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Computer Fenestrations Bob Breum
Post Office Box 151 {uiucuxc|hoptoad|petsd|ucf-cs}!peora!cmpfen!bob
Lake Monroe, FL 32747 USA
+1 407 322-3222 "C is the new BASIC"bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) (02/10/89)
In article <174@cmpfen.UUCP> bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) writes: >I am trying to install UNaXcess 1.00.02 on my AT&T UNIX-pc, running system >software version 3.5. I have compiled it, installed it, and it works -- >with one major problem. When you first start it, it asks you to register, >either as GUEST, NEW, or by your existing ID. If I enter either GUEST or >SYSOP (the only current existing ID), everything works just fine. But if >I try to register as a new user using NEW, all succeeding prompts are >garbled: They print every other character of the prompt down the left margin >of the terminal. This same behavior happened when I compiled it with the old Many thanks to Rick Connally (sp?), who had had this same problem and was kind enough to contact me by voice to explain the (simple) solution. It seems that the original distribution had an error in the "install.sh", which set up the original user file ("userfile") for user "new" with a line length of two. Changing this to 40 or 80 quickly cures the problem. This may have been reported shortly after UNaXcess 1.00.02 was released, but all I had to work with was the original posting to comp.sources.misc. -- Computer Fenestrations Bob Breum Post Office Box 151 {uiucuxc|hoptoad|petsd|ucf-cs}!peora!cmpfen!bob Lake Monroe, FL 32747 USA +1 407 322-3222 "C is the new BASIC"