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From: "Jill Rowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Remote X login on RH 7.1 - followup
> Thanks,
>
> I have tried the files from a RH6.0 installation I still have (I never had
> 6.2 here at work so I can't try that one),
I am having no problems after dropping in the XTerm from my 6.2 archive.
You did log out and back in after dropping in place?
> also someone sent me another
> xterm file which I tried too.
One of my clients also uses rsh , so I dropped it on their system and hey
are fine now too. I uuencoded the file and mailed it to you. (I was logged
on as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) so that was me
> Neither were satisfactory, making me think that it's not the XTerm file
> which is causing the problem, rather than something wrong with the way
> terminfo is being used.
>
> BTW I said the problem was "Solved" by hacking around with the X server
(PC)
> but this is only satisfactory for comman line work; it makes vi and emacs
> fail miserably.
You may have to undo what you have done to try and fix it.
>
> Now ^h does in fact perform a backspace erase on both. But the backspace
key
> only erases on the Sun and not on the Linux system.
> By the way, if I telnet to the Linux system, backspace/erase works fine.
>
Yes, I find that if you use XDCMP and run a full desktop it works fine. I
honestly think it is just a config issue that noone picked up in RedHat.
Just to make absolutely sure your problem is something else, I have put my
XTerm file here http://chevy.cyberpro.com.au/XTerm it goes in
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
My rsh command is : /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -ls -display $DISPLAY -title
ian -geometry 140x50
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