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Re: BiCon 0.0.20040401 released

First, many many thanks to  the contributors to this great project. It's 
really great. Many bugs are there wich is well expected from an alpha 
release.

Here is my experience:

I downloaded bicon, ./configure, make, make install (as root). Now,
In a gnome-terminal
[emunzir at localhost emunzir]$ bicon
BiCon started
[emunzir at localhost emunzir]$ man man
doesn't display properly
1. It shows only in half of the screen
2. Enter doens't work. It should scroll one line down.
3. the phrase "line 1-27" comes in the middle of the screen with text below it
4. vim display INSERT also half the way on screen
5. cat'ing any arabic filename will work with shaping but upon typing Arabic 
if I pressed BACKSPACE to delete a letter and type again, it will appear in 
the wrong position
6. less'ing an Arabic file won't work.

I turned to console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), loged in, bicon
I tried Left alt+shift  and tried to type the letter "e" I got a strange 
question mark. alt+shift again or anything i tried won't allow me to type 
"e". Hence, I couldn't type "exit" to exit and stuck there. Once stucked, I 
tried vim from console, typing "e" gave me the euro sign. Now, I can't type 
":" to exit. It doesn't work. Ctrl+z got me out of vim. I tried Alt+F7 to 
return to GUI but no use. Sequential Ctrl+D's loged me out and now Alt+F7 
back to GUI. Sigh! I decided not to return to that frightening blackhole until 
it's fixed.

I am using Mandrake 10


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