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- From: dcs@neutron (Dave Schweisguth)
- Subject: Mysterious behavior of 'tin'
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.132338.12652@news.yale.edu>
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- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:23:38 GMT
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- Hi all,
-
- I sent this to Iain Lea (author of the 'tin' newsreader) and posted it to
- comp.sys.sgi without results a few days ago. I'm reposting here, because it
- looks to my untrained eye like it might be solvable by a more experienced
- Unixite than I. (It appears there is no group relevant to 'tin' per se.)
-
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- To: iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
- Subject: BUG REPORT tin 1.1 PL5 (NNTP)
-
- BOX1: IRIX neutron 4.0.4 03241739 IP6
-
- CFG1: active=1800 arts=1200 reread=0 longfilenames=0 setuid=0
- CFG2: nntp=1 nntp_only=1 nntp_xuser=0 nntp_xindex=0 nntp_xspooldir=0
-
- Please enter bug report/gripe/comment:
-
- Hi again,
-
- I am resubmitting this bug report, as it is still present in PL5.
-
- I normally run tin as 'xwsh -e tin', which runs tin in its own window. ('xwsh'
- is SGI's 'xterm'.) Sometimes, usually after I first log on, tin dies with the
- message (which appears in the window):
-
- tin: signal handler caught signal SIGSEGV (11).
- tin: send a bug report to iain%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
-
- It appears that the system is in a state in which 'xwsh -e tin' does not work.
- No number of attempts of 'xwsh -e tin' reverse this state. 'xwsh' (which,
- without arguments, runs tcsh, my login shell), 'xterm' (which runs tcsh as a
- non-login shell), or 'xterm -e tin' all reverse this state. 'tin',
- 'xwsh -e true', 'xwsh -e sh', 'xwsh -e csh', 'xwsh -e tcsh',
- 'xwsh -e tcsh -l', and logging in from an ASCII terminal (and running 'tin',
- or not) do NOT reverse this state. Note that 'tin' without any windowing
- foofaraw always works.
-
- This may be tin's fault, as it does not occur with any other programs which I
- run in their own windows in the same fashion (e.g. elm, emacs), but it may be
- xwsh's fault, as it occurs with xwsh and not xterm, so it may be xwsh's fault.
-
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-
- Thanks in advance to anyone with good ideas. I'll summarize mail.
-
- Cheers,
-
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