From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: bugs in linux; any clues? Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 06:20:41 GMT
In article <1992May4.055329.17266@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> zmbenhal@isis.cs.du.edu (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
>There are several bugs in linux. I'm running 0.95c+ and gcc2.1.
>Two not serious but annoying bugs:
>pressing ENTER at the prompt of more results in the prompt line being scrolled
>together with the rest of the screen.
I just tested this, and didn't notice it myself. You should hack out
the code 'cs=\E..etc' from your termcap file. Apparently it doesn't
work under Linux, and causes problems with at least Emacs, and
possible more.
>characters typed before the prompt appears get echoed again after the prompt.
>this only happens with bash and ash but not with rc.
This is the expected behavior, I believe, and is a result of using the
GNU readline library. It does that so you can edit the command line.
(I say it's probably a result of readline, because my version of rc is
compiled with readline, and behaves as you mention - this is on my
school's computer, though, which could be different.)
>finally gawk keeps crashing with general protection error on scripts (namely,
>one with rc and in makewhatis from man-1.0)
Are you sure it's gawk, or could it be /bin/sh (ash)? You might want
to do a 'rm /bin/sh; mv /bin/bash /bin/sh' to make life a little
easier, and save disk space if you were keeping both around anways.
Ash has problems.
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