From: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
To: rl@leeor.technion.ac.il
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (zsh-workers)
Subject: Re: TERM setting influences `case' reserved word
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:01:56 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9510290001.AA03773@turan.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199510281943.VAA17570@leeor.technion.ac.il> from "Zvi Har'El" at Oct 28, 95 09:43:21 pm
Zvi Har'El wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I am using zsh 2.6-beta10, with history patches in archive/337 and 376.
> I compiled it with gnu termcap 1.3 and gcc 2.7.0 on a sparcstation running
> SunOS 4.1.3. I have a very surprizing problem. Certain settings of the TERM
> environment variable make the `case' reserved word change its behaviour, and a
> statment lime `case $i in' yields `command not found: case'. For example,
> TERM=xterms produces the problem, while TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm24 do not!
A while ago someone reported that some systems has a bug in the termcap
library which causes problems when a termcap entry is longer that 1024 bytes.
It may be possible that you have such a problem. I tried this on a SunOS
4.1.3 machine and I was unable to reproduce it.
Cheers,
Zoltan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-10-29 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-10-28 19:43 Zvi Har'El
1995-10-29 0:01 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1995-10-29 7:59 ` Zvi Har'El
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