From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 7 13:33:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09597 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip203.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09586 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id NAA04698; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709072039.NAA04698@foo.primenet.com> To: mcglk@yang.cpac.washington.edu Subject: Re: tcsh, stty, and other oddities. Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <199709070921.CAA16958@yang.cpac.washington.edu> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: [using tcsh6.001] >Unfortunately, when I use the same software on a FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-RELEASE >system, or a FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE system, I don't get filename completion; >instead, the terminal beeps and nothing happens. Furthermore, on occasion, ^C >doesn't interrupt a process---instead, it suspends it. ^Z does nothing on >those occasions. Emacs completely freaks out---keys quit working unless I hit >a , which occasionally gets the proper results, but screen updates are >difficult at best, and ^Z doesn't work, and ^X^C only suspends the process, and >so on. Both of the systems are running tcsh 6.06.00, but I don't think there's >anything substantially different in the operations. There shouldn't be, but more recent versions of tcsh may know about FreeBSD, which older versions didn't. Question: how did you get tcsh? Did you build it yourself, or did you use the package? Have you tried the tcsh package or port for FreeBSD? I'm using the packaged tcsh, and haven't experienced the problems you note with it. You may well be right about the stty stuff, but tcsh is usually excessively forgiving about them (to the point where I don't really care what my stty says in most cases). Recently, for example, we migrated from SunOS to Solaris at work, but I didn't notice the stty changes associated with this, since I was using tcsh, which seems to behave nicely once you compile the Solaris version. -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/