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* Installation problems:
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rlwrap needs the readline library (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/),
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version 4.2 or newer. For .deb or .rpm users: install the readline
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Even though rlwrap now uses the excellent pseudo-terminal (pty)
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handling code from rxvt, portable programming with ptys is something
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of a black art. The configure script tries to guess how ptys have to
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be handled on your system, but it may guess wrong. To quote rxvt's
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configure script: "if we don't guess right then it's up to the user",
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which means that you have to manually edit config.h (and save a copy
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of it somewhere, as configure will create a new config.h when it runs.
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Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
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"If (on Solaris) configure fails to detect your libreadline,
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then (temporarily) move the dynamic libs libreadline.so*
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out of sight, and try again. (seems to be a problem in the
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readline-package obtained from sunfreeware.com)"
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Christoffer Dam Bruun reported:
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"I have just installed rlwrap along with readline on Solaris 8 and
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found that rlwrap did not work properly with readline 4.3. After
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linking rlwrap with readline 4.2 it works correctly.
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What happended using readline 4.3 was that an extra prompt would be
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written after the first letter on a line, e.g. with a sqlplus prompt:
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I (HL) have not been able to reproduce this.
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After "configure", make wil re-run configure. This is a minor
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annoyance, and probably due to my poor understanding of automake.
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rlwrap cannot handle prompts that contain control characters. Any
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client that uses color and/or curses will confuse rlwrap (though you
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may not notice this until your cursor almost reaches end-of-line) This
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is unlikely to change, as is is practically impossible (given a
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terminal type and an initial position) to calculate the screen
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position after an arbitrary sequence of bytes.
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readline-4.3 tries to recognize multibyte characters. As rlwrap may
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use any part of the clients output as "prompt" (even if you decide to
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dump a binary file to stdout) this can confuse readline, which may
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even dump core on occasion (this may be dependent on your locale
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settings) If this becomes annoying, you could revert to readline-4.2
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(which does not try to recognise multi-byte characters) or apply the
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latest patches to readline-4.3
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Filename completion is an ugly hack. If you typed "impossib" and your
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completion wordlist contains "impossible" you wont't see the file
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"impossibility". This is on the TODO list.
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