Re: rk problems

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

 > From: Josh Purinton <http://www.joshpurinton.com/~josh>
 > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:45:08 -0500
 >
 > Robert,
 > 
 > I compiled rk on Solaris 5.7 and a recent Red Hat, and in both
 > cases, when I run 'rk', I don't see the ^ (caret) superimposed over
 > the cursor that the man page says I should see.  Also, pressing
 > escape-? doesn't show a help message.

It sounds like it's not getting into cbreak mode.

What version of Red Hat are you trying?

Does it bring up a shell?  If so, does it ever show predictions?

Also, are you able to run Emacs on these machines?  If so, are you able to
bring up an interactive shell within Emacs?  (This would test whether
pseudo-ttys are working.)

Finally, do you know the C programming language?  Solving this problem may
involve tweeking include header files.

 > I tried starting rk with the various examples scripts, as
 > well as touching ~/.rk.defaults, but I got the same behavior
 > every time.
 > 
 > Do you have any suggestions?
 > 
 > Josh
 > 
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