Re: xterm: either fix it, or remove it. please.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:

> On Thursday 12 November 2009 13:58:23 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   i'm checking right now if there's an option to "ls" to turn *off*
> > that feature, but i don't see one offhand.  perhaps a better lesson is
> > that the way xterm's sinstall.sh script works is really hacky, using
> > sed to allegedly reproduce a file's existing mode settings.  perhaps
> > there's a simpler way to get that effect without dragging "sed" into
> > it.  but, again, if only one package was affected, maybe just hack up
> > an xterm fix and move on, and deal with things on a case-by-case
> > basis as they come up.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Could you please try this patch to the sinstall.sh?
>
> http://paste.lisp.org/display/90216

  xterm was recently upgraded to version 251 so that patch no longer
applies.  give me a few minutes and i'll fix and test it.


rday
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