[ba.windows.x] need help with the old wall message prob on SUNs

chapman@lll-lcc.UUCP (Carol Chapman) (07/21/89)

I'm having a problem with broadcast messages on my SUN3 which I think
was discussed here previsly.  While running under X11R3 and SUN O/S/S
4.0.3, broadcast messages such as system shutdown messages, etc.,
appear across my entire screen, playing havoc with all the windows
I've set up.  Until now, I was using both the color (cgfour0) and
black and white screens on my terminal.  It wasn't too much bother to
drag the cursor from the color to the black and white screen and then
back to the color screen.  That wiped out the broadcast message that
had originally appeared while I was using the color screen.  Well, I
got tired of my screen switching from color to black and white whenever
I accidentally got the cursor too close to the edge of the screen, so
I'm now using the -dev cgfour0 option so that my SUN has only the
color screen working.  I much prefer this, but now there's no easy way
to get rid of the broadcast messages when they appear.

I saved a patch to wall.c that someone previously posted to this
newsgroup.  Will that solve the problem?  Unfortunately, I can't find
wall.c on our system so that I can apply the patch!  Where is it?

Thank you in advance!

carol chapman

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