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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!bigmac.mskcc.org!user
- From: dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org (Dave Garaffa)
- Subject: AUX Problem STRANGE!!! curses client
- Message-ID: <dgaraffa-080193152612@bigmac.mskcc.org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 15:23:16 EST
- Organization: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bigmac.mskcc.org
- Lines: 67
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- Well here's one for the unix wizards out there!!
-
- I have a VERY strange proble with the curses client of gopher 1.1:
-
- When I run as non-root (dgaraffa) everything is just fine!
-
- BUT
-
- When I run as root (or do a su from dgaraffa) the client will not respond
- to cursor movement or 'capture' any of the single key commands.
-
- Example:
-
- up/down-arrows will NOT move the arrow "-->" from one menu choice to
- another
- (instead it 'types the letter "A" next to the --> for UP and "B" for DOWN)
- it looks like this when I hit the DOWN arrow 3 times and the UP arrow 3
- times)
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.1
-
- Root gopher server: bigmac.mskcc.org
-
- -->BBBAAAAbout-MSKCC-Gopher/
- 2. MSKCC-SKI-Net/
-
- <blank lines removed to save space>
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page:
- 1/1
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- and when I type "q" the bottom of the screen will NOT clear and display the
- message "Really quit (y/n) ? y" instead a q will appear next to the -->
- (but when I press RETURN it will quit!)
-
-
- Now for the strangest part of the story:
- ----------------------------------------
- EVERYTHING was working fine for EVERYONE until yesterday so the problem
- can't
- be with the gopher application (can it?).
-
-
- What I have tried so far:
- -------------------------
- changing the default shell from sh to csh (for ROOT .. dgaraffa was always
- csh)
-
- replaced 'roots' prefs files with 'dgaraffas'
-
- recompiled gopher (as root)
-
- gone nuts tring to think of what I may have done yesterday to cause the
- problem!
-
-
- If you have any ideas I can try (and at this point I will try ANYTHING)
- please respond to the group or E-Mail.
-
- Thanks for your time!
-
-
- Dave Garaffa
- Manager Macintosh Information Center
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1-212-639-3738
-