I have just installed 105181-34 kernel in one of my Solaris 2.6 and from
this moment the automatic evaluation of the window size in xterm doesn't
work so I can't use more/less, mailers etc. normally. The only recourse
I found so far is to... fix the size with:

eval `resize`

but this in turn disables the automatic resizing.

I tried another box with Solaris 2.6 and installed 105181-34 *alone*
and got the same result. BTW, there is no such problem with dtterm.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Andrzej

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Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:

> perhaps sometime Sun will release the fix for this...

Yes, they have promised to fix it in 105181-35 (Bug ID 4843340). Before
they fix it, there is a workaround. Very clumsy but works: you have to
copy over old /kernel/strmod/ptem manually. (If you still have it. ;-)

A.M.

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Andrzej Marecki <amr@astro.uni.torun.pl> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:

>> perhaps sometime Sun will release the fix for this...

> Yes, they have promised to fix it in 105181-35 (Bug ID 4843340). Before
> they fix it, there is a workaround. Very clumsy but works: you have to
> copy over old /kernel/strmod/ptem manually. (If you still have it. ;-)

actually I'm not personally affected - just noticing that there are at least
three serious bugs introduced into xterm in the past few months by Sun's
patches. I'm wondering what sort of testing they do, since the bugs are
things that are very easy to see.

The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/

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Anthony Mandic <j8@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:

>> actually I'm not personally affected - just noticing that there are at least
>> three serious bugs introduced into xterm in the past few months by Sun's
>> patches. I'm wondering what sort of testing they do, since the bugs are
>> things that are very easy to see.

> Perhaps Sun have adopted MS's and Lunix's testing methodolgies.
> After all, it works for them - you don't hear their end users
> complain. Hmmm ... I wonder how long before Sun adopts their
> security policies?

( probably not long ;-)

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Thomas Dickey wrote:

> >> I'm wondering what sort of testing they do, since the bugs are
> >> things that are very easy to see.
>
> > Perhaps Sun have adopted MS's and Lunix's testing methodolgies.
> > After all, it works for them - you don't hear their end users
> > complain. Hmmm ... I wonder how long before Sun adopts their
> > security policies?
>
> ( probably not long ;-)

Well, if it stops all the whiners, bring it on. The sooner, the
better.

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