Subject: potato -"heyho!" message?
        Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:43:28PM +0900

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> 
> I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after
> the upgrade was completed, I noticed a strange problem.
> 
> I had several Eterms open when the message "heyho!" (followed by a newline
> character) started to be repeatedly printed on one of them. The keyboard did
> not seem to have any effect (even CTRL-C) and the only way to stop the
> message from being repeated was to close the Eterm window.
> 
> That was the second time that this problem occurred. The first time I didn't
> take much notice of it, so I'm not sure whether it appeared on an xterm or
> an Eterm.
> 
> The second time, the problem occurred, I tried "ps -a" on another terminal
> while the message was being printed, but I didn't notice anything out of the
> ordinary.
> 
> Has anybody else experienced this? Does anyone know what it is?
> 
> Anthony

I can offer a thought.  Did you load any packages to use X10 devices?
Maybe xtend?  If so there is a package called 'heyu' which is used to
talk to an X10 controller.  That 'might' be what you are seeing.

HTH

-- 
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of
nothing.
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