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From:	steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
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To:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: 9menu program available
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> I wanted something similar to use under 9wm (yes, it exists,
> and is due to be released RSN. I've been beta-testing it).

[drool]

 
> This isn't as earth-shattering as sam, 9term, or 9wm, but for me, at least,
> it fills a previously empty hole in the total environment.

Interesting. I think it could possibly do with some feedback to the user,
though - 9term appears really quickly, but something like xrn takes quite
a while, and I'd hate to think what will happen when I'm running on one of
my heavily-loaded machines. Perhaps the window label could change temporarily
to "spawning", or something....

> Let me know if there are any questions are problems, I've only tested
> it under SunOS 4.1.3 with X11R5.

Well, I'm running it under SunOS 5.3 (so all bets are off, yeah, I know, still),
and as usual, 9term's giving funny stty behaviour. If I spawn a 9term with
args "-p9font fixed -unix" from Sun's menu, I get a reasonable pty. If I spawn
one with the same args from 9menu, I need to reset intr and erase to ^C and ^?,
respectively. I haven't looked into detail yet why this might be, but I was
wondering if anyone's got any ideas.

steve