Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 10:30:58 MET DST From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stop^H^H^H^HRecofi^H^Hnfiguring tgo ^H^H^Ho gt^Hreater than 16Mbyte Tex^H^H^HProces ^Hs Text Segments Message-ID: <199604020943.LAA16547@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199604020051.RAA14857@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 1, 96 5:51 pm
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Forwarded message: > From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 18:18:02 1996 > From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> > Message-Id: <199604020051.RAA14857@phaeton.artisoft.com> > Subject: Re: Stop^H^H^H^HRecofi^H^Hnfiguring tgo ^H^H^Ho gt^Hreater than 16Mbyte Tex^H^H^HProces ^Hs Text Segments > To: dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:51:11 -0700 (MST) > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > In-Reply-To: <9604012138.AA24116@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com> from "dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com" at Apr 1, 96 01:38:11 pm > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Precedence: bulk > >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> What's the magic to reconfigure FreeBSD 2.1 to support larger than >> 16Mbyte Text Segments? > > stty erase > > Just joking... In case you don't understand Terry's joke, he's referring to the fact that your message contained a lot of backspace characters (^H). Depending on your mail reader, you may or may not see them. For example, I see the first line above as: What's the maj^Hgic to reconfigure 2.^H^HFreeBSD 2.1 to support larger than You should put the "stty erase ^H" somewhere in your shell startup script (.profile or .cshrc, depending on the shell). Greg
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