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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Anyone have rxvt 1.4 ported to FreeBSD? Date: 28 Oct 1993 18:14:35 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2ap26b$bi6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Oct27.032922.9042@news.csuohio.edu> <NATION.93Oct27085716@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com> <NATION.93Oct27101314@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com> <g89r4222.751803989@kudu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <g89r4222.751803989@kudu>, Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote: >In <NATION.93Oct27101314@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com> nation@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com (Robert Nation) writes: > >>OK, rxvt-1.45 is available now. It should support FreeBSD, >>using patches sent from csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet). > >>You can get this from spcot.sanders.com, file >>/pub/rxvt/rxvt-1.45.tar.gz > > >I'd just like to confirm that rxvt1.45 does work under FreeBSD. >I have posted up some diffs for rxvt-1.45 which fix a couple of >things in the utmp support (rxvt use to hang if it wasn't run >setuid root, because it was unable to write a utmp entry). Using Rob's package an Geoff's fixes, I was able to make a easily installable binary package of fvwm in FreeBSD package format of rxvt. Available on FreeBSD.cdrom.com in the packages directory. (When the sources and patches become more 'official' I'll make a source package as well) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me