Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:04:55 -0700 (MST) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: uwe@ohse.de Subject: Re: lrzsz never works for me on FreeBSD (aha!) Message-ID: <200212030604.gB364tHD062772@chilled.skew.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c298b9$2d966d40$0200000a@buttercup>
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Dirk Meyer was kind enough to suggest that I use the "-e" option to avoid
problems on connections that are not 8-bit clean. This did the trick, but led
me to wonder "why is my terminal not 8-bit clean?". I started experimenting
some more just now.
It turns out that since the dawn of time (10 years at least)
I've had this in my .login:
if ( ! $?TERMCAP ) then
tset -Q '-mdialup:?vt100' $TERM
endif
There's no TERMCAP environment variable these days, so the tset is invoked. I
don't think the 'dialup' business applies nowadays, either, and using the
$TERM argument is the default, so the effect is the same as if I had invoked
'tset' or 'reset' with no arguments. For the terminal types I use (vt100 or
linux), this is equivalent to making the following changes (assume each flag
would normally be the opposite of what it's being set to):
stty -echok ixany ignpar oxtabs onocr onlret erase ^?
I'm not sure what they all mean, since I'm not well versed in terminal arcana,
but surely they are pretty much all problematic:
-echok = do not echo NL after KILL character
ixany = allow any character to restart output
ignpar = ignore characters with parity errors
oxtabs = expand tabs to spaces on output
onocr = do not output CRs at column zero
onlret = NL performs the CR function on the terminal
erase ^? = sets the ERASE character to something unhelpful
I have no need to invoke tset at all, as far as I know, so I've commented that
line out. Man, all these years, never able to use lrzsz for this silly reason.
Oh well. One for the archives.
Mike
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