From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with ESMTP id GAA20674 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 06:22:51 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA14025; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:51:18 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:51:18 -0500 (EST) From: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com (Barton E. Schaefer) Message-Id: <960216105049.ZM25607@zyrcon.z-code.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:50:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: Eskandar Ensafi "Hey, who did this ?!?!" (Feb 16, 10:34am) References: <9602161834.AA08343@marathon.cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: schaefer@z-code.ncd.com X-Face: czU|*h"p8AX?4.I.yU.^s%TIMx|"-s,*'|#H^|e,QjE&!jL%<]:-.U/;khS%3a2BC5_d#)( mz=$$G0u9P&*N8cA~b[URf;lgKRif@#qEf[ltie#Gg0%6$b`e`k.Cgw:\qJx\\a7c(K7^3;gXW:e1@ J, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Hey, who did this ?!?! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"BZRw21.0.3R3.b8D9n"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/765 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Feb 16, 10:34am, Eskandar Ensafi wrote: } Subject: Hey, who did this ?!?! } } A while back, we made certain corrections to zsh so that termcap entries } are correctly intitialized in non-interactive shells, in order to allow } print -P '%B...%b' sequences and similar text attributes/cursor motion } commands to work properly in shell scripts. } } I just noticed that in zsh 2.6 beta 12 and 13, this feature has been turned } off again -- pehaps by accident, perhaps due to execessive, unwarranted } concerns for efficiency. I believe the reason was because on some systems, scripts that don't have a controlling terminal (or that are in the background) cause some kind of an error, or get stopped by SIGTTIN, when initializing termcap. Am I remembering wrong? -- Bart Schaefer Vice President, Technology, Z-Code Software schaefer@z-code.com Division of NCD Software Corporation http://www.well.com/www/barts