Re: x11 prints garbage to stdout on OS/2

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> There is a report, which I can confirm, that X11 terminal under OS/2
> 
> - prints a lot of garbage onto the gnuplot xterm, or
> - blocks until you hit <Enter>
> 
> In the latter case, gnuplot continues to plot OK.
> 
> I *guess* there is some code using PIPE_IPC without #ifdef PIPE_IPC around
> it, and thus all the communication goes into the screen. Or reading stdin
> where it should not, or like that. Can somebody have a look to this issue?
> Thanks. I haven't found a problem in gplt_x11.c, maybe somewhere else?

By far the most likely place for this to happen is not gplt_x11.c, but
x11.trm.  Looking at that "garbage" should help a lot to clear that up.

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