The IBM rs6000 delete key (and anyone got x11r4)
Eric S. Johnson
esj at wasp.eng.ufl.edu
Mon Oct 15 11:56:34 AEST 1990
The delete (normally ^?) key maps to some silly <esc>[P code. This is not
specific to AIX 3.1. I have seen it on the AIXterm of AIX 370 and
AIX 2.2.1 too. On AIX 3.1 it happens on the HFT and the AIXterm.
It is probably a simple X type keymap problem, but has been MOST irritating.
In fact, this is my most frequent complaint around the office when I am
mad at the silly OS: "F***ing IBM can't even get the delete key right..."
;-)
Also there is some problem with the yp groups. You have to keep a
local version of the /etc/group file, and the group names have to be
short. Otherwise you can't log in. And no diagnostic. (If your group
is listed in the NIS/YP map but not on the local machine, forget it.) A
five minute user creation took 3 hours because of this one.
And now a query,
Anyone succesfully ported X11R4? Diffs available?
Thanks in Advance!
Ej
P.S. I have found a bug in the -lm library. the pow function will dump
core at times. This is easily fixed by writing the function yourself.
(probably at a loss of speed)
P.P.S. It is still a very fast machine. All the programs I can manage
to get compiled run like lightning. At a demo we were running localy
using RPC to do a mandelbrot set, we ran 3 instances on the rs6000
while the rest of the net (SS, Decstations, sony's) were only running
1. The rs6000 was still faster. If the OS was nicer this would be a
class machine.
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