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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!pc_100.psychol.utas.edu.au!peter From: peter@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au (Peter R. Tattam) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: FreeBSD 1.0 - problem with Joe text editor. Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 04:48:59 GMT Organization: Psychology Department, University of Tasmania Lines: 33 Message-ID: <peter.667.2CE072BB@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc_100.psychol.utas.edu.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] Just installed FreeBSD on a brand spanking new 486/50 with adaptec SCSI controller. I have 386bsd 0.1 with full patches running on another machine just fine, but the new one couldn't boot the floppies so I thought I'd try out the FreeBSD. Most apps appear to copy over ok apart from a couple of glitches with some source incompatibilities. One program is however giving me trouble. It is the program "joe" which is a text editor. It runs fine on one machine running 386bsd, but whether I use a freshly compiled binary, or the one from the 386bsd system, I keep having trouble with the display being mangled. A few tests have shown that it works fine on low speed connections...e.g. 9600, but plays up when using the pc3 console device. CUTCP telnet vt102 emulation works fine across ethernet, and qvtnet 3.6 over winsock using vt220 emulation appears to work normally, except when I type fast, or the tab key is used. That's the best I can describe the problem. Is this problem worth pursuing.. (pico works perfectly, and so I can make do with that for a while, but I like joe)... Is the bug in the application, or in FreeBSD. I suspect the problem may be in writing stuff to the tty... perhaps swapping in and out of rawmode when it shouldn't be... the puzzling thing is why does it work on 386bsd, and not on FreeBSD. Both machines are fairly much the same speed hardware, with the exception that the FreeBSD one has a large 1G SCSI drive on it. Where do I start looking. Peter (A novice unix user) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Tattam International Phone 61-02-202346 Programmer, Psychology Department Australia Phone 002-202346 University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------------