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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: scoadmin/netconfig scrambled in maintenance mode
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:52:31 GMT

Larry Benoit wrote:

> My previous reply was mistaken: both scoadmin and netconfig work correctly in MULT-USER
> mode, but not in SINGLE-USER maintenance mode. As unlikely as this may seem,  I doubled
> checked the programs this morning in both modes in order to be certain. My apology for
> the confusion. Should I bother to run 'mkdev scoansi'?

Well, if you ran it and told it to use the "old" terminfo entries, that
would (as far as I can tell from what you describe) "fix" the problem --
but only by papering it over.

I recommend you run `mkdev scoansi` and tell it to use the "new"
_kernel_ scoansi.  Relink, reboot, test again.

Also make sure that $TERM is "scoansi" in all test cases;

Also, once again I want to make absolutely clear that you should be
testing on _text_ console screens in all cases.  Whenever you've
reported test case results, you've mentioned single- vs. multi-user mode
but haven't mentioned the venues.  If you run `scoadmin` et al from X,
by default they run in graphical mode and won't be susceptible to any of
this madness.  If you run them from within a scoterm, and take steps to
prevent graphical mode (unset DISPLAY), they'll be susceptible to
changes in the terminfo entry, but not the kernel, because scoterm does
its own separate scoansi emulation.

>Bela<
 

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