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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Elm 2.4.11 problem on SVR4.
- Message-ID: <1erqmfINN2mj@dsinc.dsi.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:49:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.225248.3873@clark.edu>
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- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda) writes:
-
- >I am having trouble using elm 2.4.11 on ESIX SVR4.0.4. I am using
- >what I think is a fairly normal configuration, except that I've told
- >it to use termio instead of termios. When I start up elm, if I have
- >no .elm directory, it asks if I want to create one. I think that,
- >at this point, elm should have the tty in raw mode, so that I can
- >type a single character and elm will react. Instead, I have to hit
- >return before elm does anything. (Of course, the return is then
- >interpreted as a response to the next question.) Once elm gets going,
- >everything seems to be fine - I no longer have to hit return.
-
- >Any ideas what might be going wrong? I tried compiling with termios
- >support, but seemed to have the same problem.
- Its a bug, introduced by the delay in going into raw mode until after the
- elmrc file is read. (These questions preceed the elmrc file being read).
- We will have to work on it for a future patch.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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