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Bug#562640: #562640 xterm(1) man page: replace /etc/wtmp by /var/log/wtmp



On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:45:20 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:

This is addressed in #255

I've just gotten around to checking 254 and 255 to update the debian
package (currently at 253), and the only xterm.man changes I see between
254 and 255 are:

@@ -1283,8 +1283,8 @@ You cannot set this to a value less than 64.
.TP 8
.B "ptyHandshake (\fPclass\fB PtyHandshake)
If \*(``true\*('', \fIxterm\fP will perform handshaking during initialization
-to ensure that the parent and child processes update the \fButmp\fP
-and \fBstty\fP state.
+to ensure that the parent and child processes update the \fIutmp\fP
+and \fIstty\fP state.
See also \fBwaitForMap\fP which waits for the pseudo-terminal's notion
of the screen size,
and \fBptySttySize\fP which resets the screen size after other terminal
@@ -5275,7 +5275,7 @@ Some shell initialization scripts may set a different locale.
.TP 5
XTERM_SHELL
is set to the pathname of the program which is invoked.
-Usually that is a shell program, e.g., \fB/bin/sh\fP.
+Usually that is a shell program, e.g., \fI/bin/sh\fP.
Since it is not necessarily a shell program however,
it is distinct from \*(``SHELL\*(''.
.TP 5

Did I miss something?

I modified minstall.sh to update the manpage to use values that it derives from the current system.

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net




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