Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:52:45 -0800 (PST) From: matt@photon.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/24063: /bin/stty ek doesnt work despite man page saying otherwise Message-ID: <200101040352.f043qjn19081@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200101040400.f04401Q19761@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 24063 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /bin/stty ek doesnt work despite man page saying otherwise >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 03 20:00:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Matt Wilbur >Release: 4.2-RELEASE >Organization: Photon Research Associates >Environment: FreeBSD sublime 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #6: Sat Dec 2 13:41:20 PST 2000 matt@sublime:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SUBLIME i386 >Description: in migrating a bunch of irix users to a freebsd mail server, i had to sift through lots of old .cshrc/.login settings that were incompatible. one such was stty ek. i'm not sure whether this is a doc bug or a bin bug.. but the man page (of course, dated 1994...) says stty ek is valid, yet it looks like this: EFS matt@sublime ~ > stty -g gfmt1:cflag=4b00:iflag=2b02:lflag=200005cb:oflag=3:discard=f:dsusp=19:eof=4:eol=ff:eol2=ff:erase=7f:intr=3:kill=15:lnext=16:min=1:quit=1c:reprint=12:start=11:status=14:stop=13:susp=1a:time=0:werase=17:ispeed=9600:ospeed=9600 EFS matt@sublime ~ > stty ek stty: illegal option -- ek usage: stty [-a|-e|-g] [-f file] [options] works fine as i typed it in solaris2.6/7/8, irix 6.x/5.x, rhat linux.. I couldn't find ek anywhere in /usr/src/bin/stty/key.c ... ? the relevent man page snippet looks like this: ek Reset ERASE and KILL characters back to system defaults. >How-To-Repeat: 'stty ek' >Fix: if backspace isn't working properly, 'stty erase <hit backspace>' works in a pinch. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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