Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quick question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961025025549.15009B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961024232826.5738m-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > You're right but I forgot what someone said on the list as to > > > set it to nothing at all since ^- sets it to - ;) > > > > Are you _SURE_ ??? ;) > > Yikes, I was on the wrong screen window! Was on the SUN machine > instead of the FreeBSD machine! ;) Hmm... I seem to recall SysV supporting ^-, too, so SUN must be the odd man out... > > bash$ stty discard ^j > > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > > cchars: discard = ^J; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; > > This is supposed to be the case... Just resetting discard to something resembling its initial state.... Standard test procedure, as I'm sure you know... :) > Hmmm, now why does ^- do the same thing as undef? Can't you use > CTRL and - at all? ;) Because that's what the manpage says, and if that's what the manpage says...! :) As for using CTRL and -.... Well, let's just say I wrote a quick little hack to see what happened if I set VSUSP to ^- and quickly found out I could no longer press <enter>.. :) `stty -f /dev/ttyv0 -a' did report that SUSP character to be ^M, though, for what it's worth! :) > > bash$ echo 'Also, I seem to remember saying something about `undef'\''...' > > Also, I seem to remember saying something about `undef'... > > Hmmm, I thought I was the one who said that? ;) Well, I sorta said `stty discard undef' would set discard to `u'... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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