Just discovered that an alternative "fix" is "stty sane" and we tried
doing this inside Analysis just before the exit and on one machine that
solved the problem. (Of course that is a Unix-specific command but even
if it failed it would not cause a problem, just report an error.)
Wayne
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Justin T Douglas wrote:
> We observe the same effect at CMU.
>
> Justin
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Wayne Boucher wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We discovered another oddity. In some Linuxes (2 out of 3 of the ones we
> > tested here) running Analysis in bash causes a problem on exit if you use
> > the Quit button or the Quit menu item (under the Project menu). (There is
> > no problem if you do ctrl-D.) What happens is that when you then type
> > into the shell you see nothing but if you then do a carriage return that
> > command is done (in particular if you do not type a command at all the
> > prompt is just repeated on the same line).
> >
> > This seems to be very bash specfic. On the 2 out of 3 Linux boxes where
> > we observed this problem we could solve it by instead using tcsh (or
> > presumably csh). And even odder, if you were using bash and ended up with
> > the above problem, then typing tcsh and hitting a carriage return and then
> > exiting from that tcsh shell back to bash, the bash shell recovers itself
> > to normal behaviour.
> >
> > The bottom line is that tcsh is better than bash (but we knew that
> > anyway).
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
>
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