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From: [e-mail] (Bruce Barnett)
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Subject: Re: cmdtool in OW3 messes up on c shell file completion
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Date: 31 Jul 92 19:03:01 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Salmon) writes:
>   This has been a problem for as long as cmdtool has existed, and
>   probably will be for as long as it exists. The solution is to change to
>   tcsh or xterm or (IMHO preferably) both.

If you do this, you lose the ability to use the mouse to edit the
command line. Also if you use xterm you lose the Open Look selection
style. There is no support for secondary selection, drag and drop,
cutting and pasting wide lines, etc.


Another alternative - which will also disable mouse-based editing is
either

    script /dev/nul
or
    rlogin localhost


These two work-arounds are in the manual page.

Or simple changing cmdtool into shelltool with "Disable Scrolling"
But then you lose the scrollbar.


You could always use jet........
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Bruce Barnett <[e-mail]> uunet!crdgw1!barnett