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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour for SUN's telnet ?
- Message-ID: <15340@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:20:16 GMT
- References: <1d44ibINNml6@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov4.211851.19757@sj.ate.slb.com>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >In trying out this experiment, I came across some interesting behavior with
- >xterm in X11R5. All I do is simply say..
- >
- >unsetenv TERM
- >telnet
- >
- >And then when I hit a space to type the rest of the line (localhost), the
- >xterm just disappears. No error messages, no nothing.
-
- Does that happen with any other terminal emulator (e.g., a different
- version of "xterm", such as the X11R4 or Open Windows version, or a
- "shelltool" or "cmdtool" or whatever)?
-
- Does it happen if you use a different *shell*?
-
- If:
-
- 1) you're using a shell that does file name completion,
- command-line editing, etc. and that requires "termcap" or
- "terminfo" to do that, and thus may require TERM to be set;
-
- 2) that shell, when you indicate that you're done typing the
- command-name token, tries to do some operation that requires
- TERM to be set;
-
- 3) that shell, when it tries to do some operation that requires
- TERM to be set, and TERM isn't set, blows chow;
-
- the problem may not be that "xterm" is disappearing, but that the shell
- *running* in the "xterm" is disappearing.
-
- Alternatively, the shell could, when it tries to do that operation, be
- sending out something that causes the "xterm" to die.
-