From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Some bugs in b18
16 May 1997 15:58:19 -0700 :
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	"'Curtis Galloway'"
	<curtis AT pdi DOT com>
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Curtis Galloway wrote:
> 2. Problems with user ids.  If I don't have an /etc/passwd file, I get
> very strange results.  For example:
>
>   bash> whoami
>   whoami: cannot find username for UID 500
>   bash> touch foo
>   bash> ls -l foo
>   -rw-r--r--   1 544      everyone        0 May 15 07:11 foo
>
> So am I userid 500 or 544?  This ambiguity causes "test -w" to fail

It's a strange NT's behavior. Your userid is 500 - "Administrator", but all 
files you created have owner id 544 (local group "Administrators"). The 
only solution I know for a now - do not work on NT box as a member of 
"Administrators" group :-(

> 4. Terminal support.  The ncurses library does work, but not if you
> change the default console window settings.  If you have a different
> background and foreground color set, they are ignored, and if you have

Ncurses uses standard ANSI color mapping (according to terminfo terminal 
description).

> the scrollback buffer turned on, you get very strange behavior.

The same. Ncurses takes number of screen lines from terminfo database. It's 
a Unix world :-)

--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
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