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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!tequesta.gate.net!inca.gate.net!bill From: bill@gate.net (William Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: cmdtool - more conflict? Date: 2 Nov 1994 13:00:01 GMT Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3982gh$1ia9@tequesta.gate.net> References: <3939qh$ppr@dmsoproto.ida.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: inca.gate.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dean Thomas (dcthomas@ida.org) wrote: : My wife and I installed FreeBSD (Walnut Creek cdrom Dec 93) on our 486/33 : pc a few months ago. Overall its great and we would like to thank the : authors. : BRAVO. Please take a bow. : Nonetheless, in X Windows, we have found what appears to be a conflict : between "cmdtool" and "more." Whenever we use the more command inside : cmdtool, more doesn't work. That is, more does not display the file. : When we exit more, the cmdtool window shuts down. : It seems to me that either there is a bug, or we do not have cmdtool : setup properly to accept more output. Can anyone out in netland solve : this problem for us. Thanks in advance. Hey Dean, I had built Xview on a version of FreeBSD, I don't remember which version. I liked most of it, but it is a little cantankerous. If I enabled the text editor in a cmdtool, it would work fine for one iteration. Upon enabling the text editor a second time, cmdtool would exit and dump core. Also, Open Look does not work well with xdm. Apparently, it requires a controlling tty. My solution was that I bought Solaris. Mind you, I use it as a front end for my FreeBSD server, and the xdm implications remain. Bottom line for me was that Xview provided enough of a taste of Open Look for me. I like olwm. There are, of course, religious wars surrounding this issue. Fortunately, the decision is yours. Good Luck, -- --- Bill Robbins Gonzo Integrator