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- From: bush@.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour for SUN's telnet ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.113308.4537@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 11:33:08 GMT
- References: <1d44ibINNml6@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov4.211851.19757@sj.ate.slb.com> <15340@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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- Originator: bush@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk
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- In article <15340@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- #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.
-
- I suspect something even stranger. I have just tried:
-
- unset TERM
- telnet
-
- (or the appropriate environment variable unset command) for each of bash,
- sh, csh and ksh in an xterm and the telnet started up just fine. The xterm
- is X11R5, my OS is SunOS4.1.1.
-
- Mark
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