Questions on ESIX

[Thomas Epperly]

I'm having some problems with ESIX System V/386 Release 3.2 (Rev C).
I hope someone out there can help out.  Please respond via email if
possible.

1) I have compiled emacs (GNU v18.55) but am having some problems getting
   it to run properly.  When I run emacs with TERM=AT386 (or
   TERM=AT386-M) the mode line appears in normal video, with the
   characters "RD" at the beginning of the line, ie.

             RD-----Emacs:  ... etc ...

   What's worse, these characters force the line to wrap so that the
   screen output is messed up!  Also, the arrow keys send:

                     <esc>[D
             <esc>[A <esc>[B <esc>[C

   instead of the normal (I think) vt100 escape sequences:

                     <esc>Ox
             <esc>Ot <esc>Or <esc>Ov

   and the Alt key, when pressed with a key, prefixes the key with
   "<esc>N".  The people at tech support say they have patterned the
   console driver and AT386 terminfo definitions after the vt100, but
   this doesn't seem to be the case.  I would like to have the mode
   line be in reverse video, and I would like to press Alt-<key>
   instead of <esc> <key>.  Is there a simple solution?

2) The Alt key does not seem to be active at all in X windows.
   Consequently, ctrl-alt- <mouse button> won't work for iconifying,
   resizing, and moving a window under uwm.  There must certainly be a
   way of activating the alt key, though I have not been able to
   locate it in the manual.  The people at ESIX say there is no way to
   make it work, but I can't believe that.

   On a related note, is there any way to redefine the action of a key
   outside of X windows.  Specifically, I would like the backspace key
   to behave as though the delete key were pressed.  (stty -e ^h
   doesn't work inside applications such as emacs).

3) Sendmail only works with local mail.  I currently have only a UUCP
   connection to the remote machine (a DECstation 3100).  Normal mail
   to the DECstation works fine.  For example "mail osnome!wilhelm"
   works fine, and mail from our DECstation manages to make it to my
   system, however, if I use emacs to send mail to osnome!wilhelm, the
   message is returned with the following message:

       Date: Wed, 1 Nov 89 21:16 CST
       From: wilhelm
       >From MAILER-DAEMON  Wed Nov  1 21:16:29 1989
       Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
       To: wilhelm

          ----- Transcript of session follows -----
       550 uucp.tcp... 550 Host unknown
       550 osnome!wilhelm... Host unknown

          ----- Unsent message follows -----
       Received: by hal.evernet (5.51/5.17)
               id AA04736; Wed Nov  1 21:16:29 1989
       Date: Wed Nov  1 21:16:29 1989
       From: Chris Wilhelm <wilhelm>
       Message-Id: <8911020316.AA04736 at hal.evernet>
       To: wilhelm at osnome.UUCP

   Is there some way to modify sendmail.cf so it will work?

4) Is there some way to read in a variable in the "C" shell?  ESIX
   doesn't allow "set var = $<".

Thanks in advance,
Chris Wilhelm
wilhelm at osnome.che.wisc.edu
wilhelm at chewi.che.wisc.edu