Re: Strange output of version

[Orion Poplawski]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 19-Sep-2007, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
> | On recent fedora versions:
> | 
> | $ echo "disp(OCTAVE_VERSION)" | octave -qf > version
> | $ od -a version
> | 0000000 esc   [   ?   1   0   3   4   h   2   .   9   .   1   3  nl
> | 0000017
> | 
> | Note the escape sequence output before the version string.
> | 
> | 
> | Setting TERM="" fixes it.
> | 
> | Looks like it is:
> | 
> | smm=\E[?1034h
> | 
> | which seems to have been added to the xterm terminfo information, which 
> | is "turn on meta mode (8th-bit on)"
> | 
> | Anyone have any ideas on why this is being output?
>
> I don't know where that would be coming from.  Octave is not doing it
> intentionally.  If you want to debug where it is coming from, I
> suppose you would need to set a breakpoint in the disp function (named
> Fdisp in the C++ code) and step from there to see what is being called
> to write the escape sequence.

It's coming from the readline library initialization.  I'll bug fedora 
about it...


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