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- Last Updated: Sun Jul 21 16:02:05 EDT 1991
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- This is for people that do not read the manual!
-
- So far people who don't read manuals don't read this either...
- I may call it README.*PLEASE* in the future, but then people won't
- be able to get it... :-)
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- 1. Why is the meta key broken in tcsh-5.20?
-
- On some machines the tty is not set up to pass 8 bit characters by default.
- Tcsh 5.19 used to try to determine if pass8 should be set by looking at
- the terminal's meta key. Unfortunately there is no good way of determining
- if the terminal can really pass 8 characters or not. Consider if you are
- logged in through a modem line with 7 bits and parity and your terminal
- has a meta key. Then tcsh 5.19 would set wrongly set pass8.
-
- If you did like the prevous behavior you can add in /etc/Login, or
- in .login:
-
- if ( $?prompt ) then
- if ( "`echotc meta`" == "yes" ) then
- stty pass8
- endif
- endif
-
- If you don't have pass8, maybe something like
-
- stty -parity -evenp -oddp cs8 -istrip (rs6000)
- or
- stty -parenb -istrip cs8
-
- would work..
-
- 2. I ran 'dbxtool &' and 'shelltool &' from tcsh, and they end up in cbreak
- and no echo mode?
-
- These programs are broken. Background jobs should not try to look at the
- tty. What happens is that dbxtool looks in stderr to inherit the tty
- setups, but tcsh sets up the tty in cbreak and -echo modes, so that it
- can do line editing. This cannot be fixed because tcsh cannot give away
- the tty. A work-around is:
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- dbxtool < /dev/null >& /dev/null &
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- 3. I tried to compile tcsh and it cannot find <locale.h>?
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- Your system does not support NLS. Undefine NLS in config_f.h and it
- should work fine.
-
- 4. Where can I get csh sources?
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- Csh sources are now available with the 4.4BSD networking distributions.
- You don't need csh sources to compile tcsh-6.00.
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- 5. I just made tcsh my login shell, and I cannot ftp any more?
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- Newer versions of the ftp daemon check for the validity of the
- user's shell before they allow logins. The list of valid login
- shells is either hardcoded or it is usually in a file called
- /etc/shells. If it is hard-coded, then you are out of luck and
- your best bet is to get a newer version of ftpd. Otherwise add
- tcsh to the list of shells. Remember that the full path is required.
- If there is no /etc/shells, and you are creating one, remember to
- add /bin/csh, /bin/sh, and any other valid shells for your system,
- so that other people can ftp too :-)
-
- 6. I am using SunView and editing is screwed up. In particular my
- arrow keys and backspace don't work right. What am I doing wrong?
-
- Well, cmdtool tries to do its own command line editing and the
- effect you get is one of using an editor inside an editor. Both
- try to interpret the arrow key sequences and cmdtool wins since
- it gets them first. The solutions are in my order of preference:
-
- 1 Don't use suntools
- 2 Use shelltool instead of cmdtool.
- 3 Unset edit in tcsh.
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- 7. I rlogin to another machine, and then no matter what I tell 'stty'
- I cannot get it to pass 8 bit characters?
-
- Maybe you need to use 'rlogin -8' to tell rlogin to pass 8
- bit characters.
-
- Everything else is a bug :-(
-