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Re: *obnoxious* & *virulent* TCSH BUG! [the evil maintainer writes back]

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From: ramirez.Princeton.EDUpenrose Chr...
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 04:02
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Christos Zoulas writes:
> Even if your termcap description is incorrect, you can use :
> 
> settc am <no|yes> and
> settc xn <no|yes> 

See!  Being artificially obnoxious can grant you the help of others!  :)

Thanks Christos!  I have tried all four permutations:

settc am [yes|no]
settc xn [yes|no]

of these variable settings in my .login -- the marriage of Stuart and tcsh-6.02  
is still stormy.  When it comes to termcaps I am a dunce -- I achieve low  
levels on the geek-o-meter.  So I am not sure what to do next;  I have notified  
Scott Hess; he'll probably take a look at this when he has time.  I could also  
study the tcsh manual page for the next week -- my music professors may have  
trouble understanding the value of this.  If I am the only victim of this new  
implementation, then I will try to use an older binary.  The problem is another  
student here loves the new tcsh features.  I could defect to the  
born-again-shell, the korn shell or some other beast of burden.  A frothy Babel  
is brewing in cyberspace.

Christopher Penrose
effete ivy tower composeur
penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu

"I cannot escape the realm of meta and the dream of honorary autism -- my hands  
clutching my people-toys and thrusting them into scalding fires, airline  
crashes, and cathartic bird trajectories."
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From: ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose)
Subject: Re: *obnoxious* & *virulent* TCSH BUG! [the evil maintainer writes back]
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