Re: reactive keyboard for solaris?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
 > Date: Thu  Nov  7,  9:07am
 >
 > 
 >  > From: Jeremy Cook <http://www.ii.uib.no/~Jeremy.Cook>
 >  > Date: Thu  Nov  7, 10:42am
 >  >
 >  > Robert,
 >  > Thanks for your help. I really like RK. I used it frequently some 5-6
 >  > years ago
 >  > but then stopped for some reason. I remember it was very helpful to
 >  > me then. Infact I remember nearly falling off my chair when I
 >  > started to type in a very long command sequence with pipes, tees and
 >  > lots
 >  > of other stuff and it managed to guess the entire thing after only 4-5 
 >  > chars even though I'd never typed that sequence before in my life. It
 >  > would be nice if there were more users such that there is a critical
 >  > mass of interested people. I'm not bothered about the rksetup,
 >  > but you could perhaps make rk ignore a missing .rk.defaults? I found
 >  > that rk refuses to start if this file is missing, but 'touch
 >  > .rk.defaults'
 >  > fixes the problem.
 > 
 > I think the '-d' flag will do this.  But I agree -- this should be the default
 > (so to speak).

I did this.

 >  > It also annoyingly complains:
 >  > 
 >  > LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable
 >  > 
 >  > if this envar is not set.
 > 
 > That's interesting!  I'll look into it when I can...

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug.  I did an "unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
in C-shell and then tried the raw executeable, and it didn't complain at
all.  Is this the correct way to reproduce this problem?

 >  > From: Jeremy Cook <http://www.ii.uib.no/~Jeremy.Cook>
 >  > Date: Thu  Nov  7,  2:13pm
 >  >
 >  > Robert,
 >  > 
 >  > I took a look at setup.c. With a bit of debugging and purify I managed
 >  > to
 >  > stop it crashing.
 > 
 > Ah, you have access to purify!  Lucky you!
 > 
 >  > It will now work atleast with xterm, however rk
 >  > has problems if I set a prime file in rksetup. Anyway I hope this might
 >  > help you. rksetup really needs a revamp so that it uses curses properly,
 >  > or 
 >  > so that it uses tcl/tk or some such.
 > 
 > Right.  rk needs a revamp.  The main thing, even more important than fixing
 > rksetup, is to use the Expect library for dealing with pseudo-ttys, instead
 > of having platform-dependent code.  I _think_ Expect works on Windows and
 > that would be a totally big win for me...
 > 
 > Tcl/Tk would be great!  You could even use TkCurses.  I definitely do not
 > have time to work on this right now, though.

I incorporated your change into the latest version and indicated so in the
README file and the man page.

The latest version is on my home page.

Thanks for all your aid.

 >  > It appears that setup is missing
 >  > some of the options that rk uses.
 > 
 > Hmm, 'nother problem.  I may have time over the holidays.