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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X windows : ioctl problems with xterm
Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:55:56 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> <31177C54.2E@ordab.com> <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com> <slrn4hs701.66.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt>
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feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) writes:
> I got that error if the following is not in the config file for the
> kernel
> options "COMPAT_43"
> It's mentioned nowhere in the docs.
This is not (no longer?) true.
j@uriah 358% find /usr/share/doc/handbook/ -type f | xargs fgrep COMPAT_43
/usr/share/doc/handbook//handbook.ascii: options ``COMPAT_43''
/usr/share/doc/handbook//handbook44.html:<dt><b>options ``COMPAT_43''</b><dd>
Running lynx on the latter file yields:
options ``COMPAT_43''
Compatibility with BSD 4.3. Leave this in; some programs will
act strangely if you comment this out.
Alas, nobody has rewritten our getty to use Posix termios instead of
Ancient BSD sgtty yet.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)