From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 23:31:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA27201 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA27196 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA27896; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:32:11 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quick question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > You're right but I forgot what someone said on the list as to > > set it to nothing at all since ^- sets it to - ;) > > Are you _SURE_ ??? ;) Yikes, I was on the wrong screen window! Was on the SUN machine instead of the FreeBSD machine! ;) > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = ; > bash$ stty discard undef > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = ; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = ; > bash$ echo Hmmm... That did work.... > Hmmm... That did work.... Same results for me... > bash$ stty discard ^j > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = ^J; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = ; This is supposed to be the case... > bash$ stty discard ^- > bash$ stty -a | grep discard > cchars: discard = ; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = ; > bash$ echo 'I'\''d quote the manpage to you, but that would be mean! ;)' > I'd quote the manpage to you, but that would be mean! ;) Hmmm, now why does ^- do the same thing as undef? Can't you use CTRL and - at all? ;) > bash$ echo 'Also, I seem to remember saying something about `undef'\''...' > Also, I seem to remember saying something about `undef'... Hmmm, I thought I was the one who said that? ;) > Well, the idea is that `stty discard def' will set your discard character > to `d', which makes it hard to type `stty discard def' since it's > impossible to type a `d'.... :) Yep ;) actually, as long as it's not CTRL-O then it will be fine as Pine needs ctrl-O to Postpone messages... =) Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations