Re: OS/2 TCP/IP 2.0 X Server can't handle GNU emacs

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From: Oliver Jones
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 13:12

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In article <CGrMIr.9M5@dcache.uucp>,
John E Van Deusen III (Sysadmin) <jiii@dcache.uucp> wrote:
>I have been evaluating TCP/IP 2.0 for OS/2. If a client emacs session is
>started on a Sun Machine running SunOS 1.4.3, and the ctrl-g (QUIT) key is
>entered the application aborts with the following error:
>
>X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for

Try issuing the command 
   xset bc 
"bug compatibility" to turn on the server mode in which
the server fails to reject out-of-range values.  

>  GNU/emacs-18.57 compiled under SunOS 1.4.2 running under SunOS 1.4.3 on an
>  ELC.

This version of emacs (compiled and run under 4.1.x, I assume) does need
the bug compatibility patch in the server.

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From: oj@world.std.com (Oliver Jones)
Subject: Re: OS/2 TCP/IP 2.0 X Server can't handle GNU emacs
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 13:12:18 GMT
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