HELP!! ircII2.2pre5+4 questions

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Author: Christopher P. Tully,Pathology,6...
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 20:08

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Hi-

I'm just trying to get an ircII client running.  I have ircII2.2pre5+4
running currently, but it is behaving funny (at least as far as I can
tell with no previous experience).  The best I can for describing funny
is to say that the man page says it should come up with an upper window
for output and a lower one line window for commands.  This ISN'T what I
see!  Instead, I just a continuous scroll in a command window.  Also,
if I try to start irc from a menu (rather than from the command line),
it locks the system, and I have to loggin from else where and kill -9
everything (I can't just kill irc, since it never gets far enough to
have a process number - I know this sounds funny, but its true.  If I
type ps ax, I don't see any processes that are any way related to irc!)

Anyway, I'm using a Sun SPARCstation 2 with SunOS 4.1.1 and OW 3.0.
Can anybody out there tell me if I'm using a bad release, or at least
suggest how to make it work properly?

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Re: HELP!! ircII2.2pre5+4 questions

#114

Author: -=Runaway Daemon=-
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 15:14

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In article <1992Oct6.200805.27670@samba.oit.unc.edu> cptully@med.unc.edu writes:
>Hi-
>
>tell with no previous experience).  The best I can for describing funny
>is to say that the man page says it should come up with an upper window
>for output and a lower one line window for commands.  This ISN'T what I
>see!  Instead, I just a continuous scroll in a command window.  Also,

Sounds to me like you've totally ignored your terminal type.  I suspect
that irc thinks you have a dumb terminal.  Or at least it doesn't know
how to control your terminal.  From your unix shell make sure you have
the right terminal type set.  It might be something as simple as
set term = sun
It might be worse depending on how you have  your sun set up.

>if I try to start irc from a menu (rather than from the command line),

Now this really sounds like you're forgetting your terminal.  If you 
start it from a menu how's it supposed to know where you're coming from?
Does 'vi' work from your menus?  Exactly what type of menus are you using?

>Anyway, I'm using a Sun SPARCstation 2 with SunOS 4.1.1 and OW 3.0.
Ah.. that answers that.. I'm not real familiar with OW 3.0 but it 
can run xwindows can't it?  I'd suggest starting an xwindow just
for irc..   set term = xterm or vt100   (vt100 ussually works for me in 
an xterm.. just can't resize).

>Can anybody out there tell me if I'm using a bad release, or at least
>suggest how to make it work properly?
You're not using a bad release.   ircII2.2pre5+4 is the biggest baddest 
client in the ircII2.1 syntax.  (if "", while "".. etc)  It changed
in pre6 for the better but if you're stuck in the old ways, then 
pre5+4 is the client for you.

	ian

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