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Re: newbie questiions: mouse and command line problems



----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <roger_maillist@alltel.net>
To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <gcruzicka@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: newbie questios: mouse and command line problems


> On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 16:50, Gene C. Ruzicka wrote:
> > i just installed xfree, and i'm running into some weird problems. first,
> > using the left and center mouse buttons to cut and the center to paste
> > doesn't work when i invoke the xterm that's on my PC .  but when i
> > log onto my office UNIX workstation from home and run xterm
> > there with DISPLAY set to my PC, the cut/paste sequence works
> > fine.
>
> although i have yet to work with the latest version of xterm, seems to
> copy/paste seems to work just fine with xterm.
>
> using winxp pro here.  believe it also worked fine in winme but am
> unsure.
>
> --
> Roger

it looks like i found out what was wrong.  there were at least two problems:

1.  it seems that some of the files, at least the Xlib.tgz and Xman.tgz at
the ftp.nas.nasa.gov mirror
     have been corrupted.  i re-executed the install script, and there a
number of files that could not
     be gunzipped.  the problem persisted even after i downloaded
replacements, so i don't think it
     was the dlownload that corrupted the files.  i corrected all this by
downloading files from the
     ftp.uiuc.archive site.

2. there seems to be an inconsistency between the names of the files
specified in Xinstall.sh and the
    actual files. one of the steps in Xinstall.sh is processing the termcap
file.  the scipt uses the
    instruction "tic $RUNDIR/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo" to create the xterm
termcap file. but
    the file that was actually placed in that directory was named
xterm.termcap .  thus, the
    Xinstall.sh script generated an error, and no xterm termcap file was
generated. that was
    the cause of all the problems i experienced earlier.

was the Xinstall.sh problem a bug in the system, or a byproduct of the
corrupted files?
anyway, it looks like the system now works fine.

gene



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