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From: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr T Crummey (DIJ))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: xview3.2 copy/paste
Date: 22 Jan 1994 13:09:45 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Bangor
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hr8ip$a7f@clss3.bangor.ac.uk>
Reply-To: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.bangor.ac.uk
Keywords: cmdtool paste crashes

Hello All,

I built/ported xview3.0 to netbsd 0.9 (xview3.2 is next!) and have the same problem.
Copying in a cmdtool/shelltool doesn't seem to set the selection properly and
pasting therefore seems to get a corrupted attribute list (a traceback on the dead
cmdtool reveals that it dies in attr_count in attr.c, but I haven't yet built libxview
with debugging symbols). Textedit does appear to operate correctly.

One thing that intrigues me is where you that said textedit operates correctly under 
xview3.2 got it from? It's not included in the xview3.2 distribution in the X contrib
directories. I presume it's the xview3.0 one.

Other problems I am having with cmdtool/shelltool concern accessing the tty. I am
getting:

Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Thus no job control in this shell.

I also get 

ttysw_sigwinch, can't get tty process group: Inappropriate ioctl for device

at regular intervals. I suspect these problems are related to netbsd since I also
get this problem (infrequently) after exiting X windows and logging in on the console
without windows. I saw one article recently mentioning this and I'd like to follow
it up.

Any light anyone can shed on anything I've said, please email...

Thanks for your time,

--
Tom.

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