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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
- Subject: Re: bash for beginners
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:05:52 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Lines: 19
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301211226.AA00814.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <arndt.727529226@kaa>
- Reply-To: chet@po.cwru.edu
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- > I have compiled bash 1.12 on a sparcstation running
- > sunos 4.1.2 .
- >
- > My problem is that the arrow keys don't work in a
- > sun command tool ( $TERM=sun-cmd ).
-
- There are two problems. First, the termcap definition lies about
- the capabilites supported by cmdtool. Second, cmdtool doesn't let
- input get through to the application unscathed -- since it wants
- to let the user do mouse-based line editing and the like, it intercepts
- input. I suspect a combination of those things is causing your
- difficulty.
-
- --
- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
-
- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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