Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quick question Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961024232826.5738m-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961025010845.6037B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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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! ;) > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; > bash$ stty discard undef > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = <undef>; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; > bash$ echo Hmmm... That did work.... > Hmmm... That did work.... Same results for me... > 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... > bash$ stty discard ^- > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = <undef>; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; > bash$ echo 'I'\''d quote the manpage to you, but that would be mean! ;)' > I'd quote the manpage to you, but that would be mean! ;) Hmmm, now why does ^- do the same thing as undef? Can't you use CTRL and - at all? ;) > 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, the idea is that `stty discard def' will set your discard character > to `d', which makes it hard to type `stty discard def' since it's > impossible to type a `d'.... :) Yep ;) actually, as long as it's not CTRL-O then it will be fine as Pine needs ctrl-O to Postpone messages... =) Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations
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