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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemming0.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:29:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 24 Mar 1997 13:27:42 +0100
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
> 
> > Problem is that the setup is so ridiculously complex that it's
> > practically impossible to reproduce.
> 
> I think I see what is going on (this is pure guesswork, as I am not
> intimate with efs).  As efs uses pty-s to open the FTP client, the
> client is "sure" that it has the terminal for itself.
> 
> On any Unix other than Linux, this wouldn't be a problem.  But on
> Linux, the default FTP client is a "nice" version[1] that uses GNU
> readline.  Of course, it sends all kinds of control sequences that
> destroy pure efs.
>
> [good stuff deleted] 
> 
> I hope this helped.


But why does it work when I start XEmacs from an xterm or a window
manager menu or something like that?

It will not work even on the same machine in only one case: 

rsh to localhost (or any other linux machine), <export display and any
other needed stuff>, start XEmacs from this shell window.

WHY WHY WHY WHY <schnief>

	jtl

