[GRASS5] [bug #2036] (grass) SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed in SGI Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter' keys of keyboard are disfunctional. Is there any advice how to make it work.

[Paul Kelly]

The problem was with the 5.0.0pre5 IRIX binaries. It seems to be a bug in
the keypad() function in the SGI implementation of the curses library and
occurs when running through the IRIX winterm. If you use another terminal
emulator, e.g. xterm or telnet into the machine, the Esc and Enter keys
work fine.

However the latest 5.0.2 IRIX binaries, which have been available for
several months now, do not have this problem as I manually disabled the
calls to the keypad() function before compiling the binaries.

So, two possible solutions:
1) Keep the 5.0.0pre5 and run through an xterm (for example)

2) Upgrade to the 5.0.2 binaries

Any further reports on the usability of the IRIX binaries would be welcome
as they do not get much testing.

Paul Kelly

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Request Tracker wrote:

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2036
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> Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED RE: GRASS IRIX binary version was installed in SGI Fuel Systems but the 'ESC' and 'Enter'  keys of keyboard are disfunctional. Is there any advice how to make it work.
> 
> Platform: Irix
> grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
> grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
> GRASS Version: 5.Opre3
> 
> Please enter error description here (and your name)
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> 
> Enayet Ullah
> Email: enayet.ullah at defence.gov.au
> 
> Hi GRASS users,
> 
> When GRASS5.Opre3 was run with the option '-text', the "Esc" key as well as some selection for "Enter" key is not accepted and the system hung. GRASS was installed on SGI Fuel system after downloading the binaries. The fuel envirnment options "env" shows LANG=C.  I have contacted SGI to check the keyboard type and it has not been changed from the ONYX or Indigo keyboard. I would like to know, whether other Fuel users have been experiencing the same or is there any remedy for such a problem. 
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