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Re: zsh-2.6-beta14 on AIX with login shell problem

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: kazda@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Kazda)
Subject: Re: zsh-2.6-beta14 on AIX with login shell problem
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:09:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (zsh-workers)
In-reply-to: <9604221714.AA18650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Mike Kazda at "Apr 22, 96 01:14:02 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368

> I wonder if there are any other AIX 3.2 users out there who've tried
> the beta.  If so, please chime in.  I'd really like to solve this.

Well, I can use the beta on AIX but not without AIX specific hacks:

egervary ~/zsh.egervary/Src % uname -a
AIX egervary 2 3 000012967600
egervary ~/zsh.egervary/Src % echo $ZSH_VERSION 
2.6-beta13-hzoli13

And my .zshrc contains this:

case "$OSTYPE" in
    aix*)
        if [[ "$TERM" = xterm* && "$#TERMCAP" -lt 100 ]] then
                unset TERMCAP
                TERM=xterm
                unsetopt singlelinezle
        fi
        ;;
[...]

So the problem is that the TERMCAP variable contains some unusable
information.  This problem is not specific to zsh.  We had problems with
other applications as well (but I know no morw details).  I'm not at all
sure that this problem will be fixed in the next stable release.

The most perfect solution is avoiding AIX :-).  We have 7 different Unix
flavours here so anyone can choose.  There are a lot of troubles with AIX
and this TERMCAP anomaly is only the smallest one.

Bye,

Zoltan

References:
- Re: zsh-2.6-beta14 on AIX with login shell problem
  - From: kazda

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