te07@edrc.cmu.edu (Thomas Epperly) (11/10/89)
I'm having some problems with ESIX System V/386 Release 3.2 (Rev C).
I hope someone out there can help out. Please respond via email if
possible.
1) I have compiled emacs (GNU v18.55) but am having some problems getting
it to run properly. When I run emacs with TERM=AT386 (or
TERM=AT386-M) the mode line appears in normal video, with the
characters "RD" at the beginning of the line, ie.
RD-----Emacs: ... etc ...
What's worse, these characters force the line to wrap so that the
screen output is messed up! Also, the arrow keys send:
<esc>[D
<esc>[A <esc>[B <esc>[C
instead of the normal (I think) vt100 escape sequences:
<esc>Ox
<esc>Ot <esc>Or <esc>Ov
and the Alt key, when pressed with a key, prefixes the key with
"<esc>N". The people at tech support say they have patterned the
console driver and AT386 terminfo definitions after the vt100, but
this doesn't seem to be the case. I would like to have the mode
line be in reverse video, and I would like to press Alt-<key>
instead of <esc> <key>. Is there a simple solution?
2) The Alt key does not seem to be active at all in X windows.
Consequently, ctrl-alt- <mouse button> won't work for iconifying,
resizing, and moving a window under uwm. There must certainly be a
way of activating the alt key, though I have not been able to
locate it in the manual. The people at ESIX say there is no way to
make it work, but I can't believe that.
On a related note, is there any way to redefine the action of a key
outside of X windows. Specifically, I would like the backspace key
to behave as though the delete key were pressed. (stty -e ^h
doesn't work inside applications such as emacs).
3) Sendmail only works with local mail. I currently have only a UUCP
connection to the remote machine (a DECstation 3100). Normal mail
to the DECstation works fine. For example "mail osnome!wilhelm"
works fine, and mail from our DECstation manages to make it to my
system, however, if I use emacs to send mail to osnome!wilhelm, the
message is returned with the following message:
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 89 21:16 CST
From: wilhelm
>From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Nov 1 21:16:29 1989
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: wilhelm
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 uucp.tcp... 550 Host unknown
550 osnome!wilhelm... Host unknown
----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: by hal.evernet (5.51/5.17)
id AA04736; Wed Nov 1 21:16:29 1989
Date: Wed Nov 1 21:16:29 1989
From: Chris Wilhelm <wilhelm>
Message-Id: <8911020316.AA04736@hal.evernet>
To: wilhelm@osnome.UUCP
Is there some way to modify sendmail.cf so it will work?
4) Is there some way to read in a variable in the "C" shell? ESIX
doesn't allow "set var = $<".
Thanks in advance,
Chris Wilhelm
wilhelm@osnome.che.wisc.edu
wilhelm@chewi.che.wisc.edu