Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:50:28 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE Message-ID: <200311041750.JAA20518@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:46:39 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311041137170.2711-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:
> > Very critical indeed... And with such a huge userbase that it took six
> > months before anybody noticed this problem. :-)
>
> No, we noticed it here at work where we use Sun Solaris
> boxes as our development systems. I didn't know what the
> problem was until now. It is very very annoying to have
> man, more, less, etc, screw up your display when using
> them while remotely logged in to our FreeBSD boxes.
Oh, so THAT's the cause. I've been seeing this for quite a while,
but haven't been sufficiently annoyed to track it down. I just assumed
that either termcap or xterm was broken. I've just been using
"TERM=vt100" as a kludgearound.
> The
> symptoms are that everything gets highlighted and underlined
> and it stays that way forcing you to close the xterm and
> open another.
An easier fix is to run vi and exit, which resets the
highlighting.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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