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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:29:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        deischen@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20031106042721.E26361-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311041137170.2711-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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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.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
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Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>




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