PTF 1751 breaks "pg" with aixterm

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2 total messages Started by Jamie Watson Tue, 19 Sep 1989 08:01

#358

Author: Jamie Watson
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 08:01

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After installing PTF 1751 on AIX/RT, the "pg" command is no longer able
(or willing) to figure out how many lines an aixterm window actually has.
Before PTF 1751, it did this correctly; after 1751, it treats aixterm as
if it were an ordinary ibm6152, with 25 lines.  Restoring /bin/pg from
the 2.2.1 Base Operating System diskettes solves the problem, so it is
apparently the pg program itself that they broke.

There certainly have been a *lot* of problems with PTF 1751.  Perhaps
with all the discussion and complaint in this newsgroup about notification
and distribution of PTFs, the people at IBM have decided to "prove" their
point about PTFs being "untested" software that "might" break something
else, and thus justify their policies on this?  I think I would rather
believe this, than to believe that the people who prepare these things
are getting less and less competent to produce working software, with a
major new release coming up soon.

jw

Re: PTF 1751 breaks "pg" with aixterm

#360

Author: Ed Clarke/10240000
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1989 03:58

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From article <571@pan.UUCP>, by jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson):
> After installing PTF 1751 on AIX/RT, the "pg" command is no longer able
> (or willing) to figure out how many lines an aixterm window actually has.
> Before PTF 1751, it did this correctly; after 1751, it treats aixterm as
> if it were an ordinary ibm6152, with 25 lines.  Restoring /bin/pg from

If you have ANY choice, do not put 1751 on.  It breaks NFS, DS and ... 
getty (!).  My serial ports stopped working for login after applying 
this PTF.  Lucky thing I had a 1749 machine around to steal the getty
from.  It looks like the new getty screws up the baud rate or parity
somehow.
-- 
Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke

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