From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 19:51:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01927 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jjmartin@eos.ncsu.edu) Received: from default (s035h010.dialup.ncsu.edu [204.84.246.58]) by cc00ms.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/US19Dec96) with SMTP id WAA19670 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:51:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <36201EE9.621F@eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:58:49 -0400 From: Jim Martin Organization: North Carolina State University X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: simple unix question ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, if I'm telnet'ing into a server and if I issue the command echo '12\t34' I will see '12\t34' on some (freebsd) machines and '12 34' on others machines (AIX). And on other machines we see the \t come back as the ascii tab (0x09). I need to learn how to control configure the telnet session to be able to translate the tab (the \t) or to not translate. The stty -oxtab I thought was to allow tabs to go untranslated. If I issue 'stty oxtab' to enable translation of tabs, I don't see freebsd substitute spaces for the tab. Likewise I can't change AIX's behavior with the stty command. what else is involved with being able to turn on and off the tab translation over a telnet session? thanks, jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message