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From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford)
Subject: Re: xview3.2 copy/paste?
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.100507.4642@info.brad.ac.uk>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 10:05:06 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote:
: In article <2hml5a$5pg@sparkyfs.erg.sri.com> ted@sparkyfs.erg.sri.com (Ted Nolan) writes:
:    I've also got the FreeBsd xview32 package installed, and am runnin olwm
:    as my window manager.

:    My problem is this:  I can not copy and paste text within (or between)
:    shelltools and cmdtools.  Trying to do so will crash the shelltool at best,
:    and take down the whole X server at worst. 

: Huh!  I wonder (gack) if this isn't some incompatability between the two
: systems??  The xview binaries in question certainly work fine under FreeBSD
: itself..  Anyone else here running FreeBSD's xview package under NetBSD?
: I was always under the impression that this worked fine..

I also use the xview package under NetBSD 0.9 . By and large it works well, but
there *are* some problems, and shelltool/cmdtool is the main culprit. In
particular any attempt to run rlogin within a cmdtool results in rlogin
exiting with a bus error. I had not previously observed the problem with
cut & paste, but have just verified that it occurs on my machine too - cmdtool
exiting with a bus error and dumping core. Note: cutting and pasting works
OK within the textedit editor.

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