Probs with xterm and Background Read, Background Write

[James Trammell]

Here are two things that are annoying me when I use the RS 6000's.

1)  MANY times, whenever I try to execute a unix command, I get
either "Background Read" or "Background Write" as an error message,
and the command doesnt run.  It always happens when I try this:

pine% which <any unix command>

Background Write
pine%




2)  X11R4 is running here, with the patches from MIT.  When I 
pop up an xterm window, something happens that makes the carriage 
return produce a line feed only.   Pressing return a couple of times
gets me this:

pine%
     pine%
	  pine%
	       pine%

The terminal problem above also happens sometimes in the HFT.



any help would be appreciated.
____________________________________________________________
James Trammell			      University of Michigan


trammell at engin.umich.edu	 
------------------------------------------------------------