[rescue] Now what? (dtterm division)

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Message: 12
From: Mike Meredith <hmv at meredithm.fsnet.co.uk>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Now what? (dtterm division)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:29:22 +0100
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

> On Friday 13 September 2002 10:44 pm, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>> dtterm on my LX, running Sol 7, seems to think that an at-sign ("@")
>> means "cancel this command".  This hapens under both olwm and dtwm,
>> though I usually run it under olwm.
>
> This is dragging up a bit of ancient history ... the '@' character is (I
> believe) the default for 'werase'. Doesn't make much sense to set it to
> that these days, so :-
>
> stty werase ^W
>
> should set it to something sensible.

> I could be mistaken, so if that doesn't work do 'stty -a' to see what
> control character is set to '@' and fix it.

Hmmm.  Before I tried anything else ...

/users/shel $ stty -a
ispeed 89376 baud; ospeed 89360 baud;
rows = 24; columns = 80; ypixels = 324; xpixels = 492;
eucw 1:0:0:0, scrw 1:0:0:0
intr = ^?; quit = ^\; erase = ^h; kill = @;
eof = ^d; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>;
start = <undef>; stop = <undef>; susp = ^z; dsusp = <undef>;
rprnt = <undef>; flush = <undef>; werase = <undef>; lnext = <undef>;
-parenb parodd cs8 cstopb hupcl cread -clocal loblk crtscts crtsxoff parext
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany ixoff -imaxbel
isig icanon -xcase echo echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh
-tostop echoctl -echoprt echoke -defecho -flusho -pendin iexten
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel

"kill = @" would seem to be the culprit, and "stty kill ^w" seems to fix it.

Thanks a ton.

-Shel
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Sheldon T. Hall
shel at cmhc.com
206-780-7971