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- From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
- Subject: Re: Screen ??? bugs ???
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:24:58 GMT
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- In article <d461Haun*b@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- >This is wrong. I've been using the current release of screen for months
- >now, and I've had no problems. This was true a couple years ago, but
- >no longer. Get the latest version from:
- >
- >prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-3.2b.tar.Z
- >
- >The configure script makes installation very easy.
-
- Actually, in our case (running SunOS) it was the Sun code that
- was buggy. The code which assigns ptys was woefully inadequate and that
- caused screen to get half-open ptys. The new version of screen employs
- methods to ignore such pairs (as best as it can) and has other improvements
- as well. Since this time, Sun came out with a patch to fix this bug and
- all has worked well.
- One thing that you might want to consider when installing screen
- (especially if you are going to use it on a busy machine) is that you
- install more ptys (and provide for them in the code). Additionally, you
- might want to change the way in which ptys are allocated in the code.
- The search for unused ptys can be unneccesarily slow. I simply reversed
- the order and all was well.
-
- Screen is THE most useful Unix program in existence for non-windowing
- terminals. I could not exist without it -- and I use a windowing
- terminal!!!
-
-
- -tms
-
- --
- You can get further with a kind word | You can get further with a kind word
- and a gun than a kind word alone. | and a phaser than a kind word and a gun.
- --al capone | -- John Navarra
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