Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:41:39 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311060840450.20398-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031106042721.E26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erik Trulsson 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. > > The symptoms are that everything gets highlighted and underlined and it > > stays that way forcing you to close the xterm and open another. If we > > set TERM to xterm-r6 or xterm-r5, then everything seems to work OK. > > I brought this same problem up a while back, as it did the same thing to > my xterm on my Irix boxes as well. It's not just FreeBSD, current Redhat > releases do the same thing. Is there a termcap fix that allows both color xterm and doesn't screw up older xterm implementations? -- Dan Eischen
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