DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (08/23/90)
here is a pretty weird problem with vpix when it is run under Xwindows... When you execute vpix with "vpix -c blah blah blah" normally it will boot vpix from your unix side, execute something without the vpix sign-on message on top of the screen, and then return back to your unix prompt. However, when you execute vpix with "vpix -c blah blah blah" under X windows - with any manager, or even without a window manager - you will see the vpix sign-on message (the copyright, etc.) and when it finishes executing the command, it will pause with [Press return to continue] message at the bottom of the window. And - here is the kicker - it will not return back to your unix prompt until you press return. This happens under ISC2.0.2, with whatever the vpix release that comes with ISC2.0.2, and ISC X1.1R3, version 1.1. I am running a shell script in batch mode that calls the "vpix -c cmd ... " as a subroutine. The shell script is in-turn something that runs under X. I cant have this annoying prompt stopping my processing because the stuff is supposed to be run un-attended. Does anybody know how I can patch this problem? I am not hopeful that they have actually fixed this one - because it is pretty obscure. I wonder if there is something I can do to the vpix.img (it is in vpix.img - i checked this with the "string" utility), like writing nop's to the instructions, etc., to get rid of it? Is there any other way to fix this without open-heart surgery? thanks for any hints --- bruce deadhead@cup.portal.com