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| author |  Richard Basch <probe@mit.edu> | 1994-08-19 10:15:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Basch <probe@mit.edu> | 1994-08-19 10:15:26 +0000 |
| commit | a40c59b5b43d23665e557763dca8b57914d71ce2 (patch) | |
| tree | eac731571870b8e0fc568410021de03aaa9d82cc /zwgc/tty_filter.c | |
| parent | 4dba450a0b076e9f434972ea1311e4b05ecb7126 (diff) | |
Kludge to work around zwgc hanging when started in the console window
on the RISC/6000. We assume "plain" mode when TERM=dumb.
Diffstat (limited to 'zwgc/tty_filter.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | zwgc/tty_filter.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/zwgc/tty_filter.c b/zwgc/tty_filter.c index 6f3e4db..f8f9f40 100644 --- a/zwgc/tty_filter.c +++ b/zwgc/tty_filter.c @@ -88,7 +88,19 @@ char **argv; /* only complain if initializing tty mode, and would be first available port */ ERROR("$TERM not set. tty mode will be plain.\n"); - } else { + } +#ifdef _AIX + /* + * This is a temporary KLUDGE to get around the problem where some people + * might start zwgc in their ~/.startup.X and it hangs on the RISC/6000. + * Apparently, the call to tgetent() with the Athena console window causes + * the process to get stopped on tty access. Since the terminal type is + * "dumb" (set by tcsh), we can pretty much assume there isn't anything + * to setup from the termcap information. + */ + else if (!strcmp(term, "dumb")) { } +#endif + else { tgetent(tc_buf, term); /* Step 1: get all of {rv,bold,u,bell,blink} that are available. */ |