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Re: [Review - Not yet] aterm-0.4.2-1 - vt102 terminal emulator, based on rxvt


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>  >
> > If aterm is based on rxvt, it probably runs /bin/sh rather than /bin/bash
> > (which would explain the escape sequence problem above).  The solution for
> > rxvt (which should also help here) is to run "rxvt -e bash".
> >
> > I agree that the other problems are pretty much showstoppers.  It would
> > have helped if you mentioned at least the version of Windows that you
> > tried it on, though (I assume you have the latest packages installed).
>
> In the interest of not writing overly long emails (which I find people
> tend to ignore), I decided to not even mention that I tried other shells
> since describing the slight difference in behavior wouldn't really
> matter since it goes into an infinite loop.  "aterm -e /bin/bash"
> behaves only slightly differently.

The above was meant as more of an academic comment.  If you think the
escape sequences problem is trivial compared to the hangs (with which I
actually agree), you probably shouldn't have mentioned it.  Having
mentioned it, and not having said that you've tried "aterm -e /bin/bash",
you opened yourself up for the above guess... :-)  BTW, using bash rather
than sh was only supposed to help the escape sequence problem, and nothing
else (did it?).

> The version of Windows I am running doesn't matter unless Jari can't
> reproduce the problem, in which case he can ask what version I have;
> until then it would just be noise.
>  Harold

Allow me to disagree.  Reporting your Windows version lets Jari know that
either the program misbehaves on some version he hasn't tried, or that
something in your setup is different.  I sincerely hope he actually tested
the package executables on his machine, in which case it would be a given
that he can't reproduce it.  Having him ask you for a version will
generate much more mailing list traffic than including the version in the
original problem report in the first place, IMHO.

And with this I'll conclude this overly long off-topic e-mail that people
are free to ignore. :-)
	Igor
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