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- From: jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman)
- Subject: a few dumb questions from a beginner
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.183600.15291@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:36:00 GMT
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- Please excuse me if these questions are dumb (BTW I did RTFM but it
- was less than helpful. I am running X11R5 on Sun Sparcstations running
- SunOs 4.1.x. According to the X-Window Users Guide Iam supposed to be
- able to issue a command like so:
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- xterm -e "do_something &
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- This is supposed to fire up an xterm window in which to run said
- command and close up when its finished. It works on some other Suns I have
- access to but not the ones I care about. On those the window opens and
- a message appears "xterm: can't execvp do_something". I believe I have
- something configured wrong but I can't figure out what.
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- second question - what can I do to emacs so that it recognizes the
- arrow keys in an xterm window? This, I believe is another
- configuration question.
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- Jerry Freedman,Jr
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