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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:59:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xterms hang after open?
Message-ID:  <199506240559.HAA02575@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <m0sPCcV-000IzmC@deadline.snafu.de> from "Andreas S. Wetzel" at Jun 23, 95 07:34:19 pm

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As Andreas S. Wetzel wrote:
> 
> Also it seems that this problem does not occur, when using a shell other
> than the tcsh shell (I just tried it out with an sh shell, and the window
> just popped up and was there). Again... this is no problem I'm having
> sinc yesterday, but it is a problem I'm having since nearly 2.0R.

How long's your $path variable?  Mine contains 10 elements, and i've
never noticed such behaviour.  tcsh is known to perform some (rather
inefficient) lookups along the path in order to build the internal
tables on startup.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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