From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 03:53:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA08603 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA08558 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id AAA15537 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01344; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:45:59 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:45:58 -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: > Hmm... I seem to recall SysV supporting ^-, too, so SUN must be the odd > man out... It's a Sequel machine running Dynix actually... > Just resetting discard to something resembling its initial state.... > Standard test procedure, as I'm sure you know... :) Oh okay, thought you were trying to do something else =) > > Hmmm, now why does ^- do the same thing as undef? Can't you use > > CTRL and - at all? ;) > > Because that's what the manpage says, and if that's what the manpage > says...! :) Then that's what goes =) > As for using CTRL and -.... > > Well, let's just say I wrote a quick little hack to see what happened if I > set VSUSP to ^- and quickly found out I could no longer press .. :) > > `stty -f /dev/ttyv0 -a' did report that SUSP character to be ^M, though, > for what it's worth! :) Oh okay... Isn't enter supposed to be ^M though? > > Hmmm, I thought I was the one who said that? ;) > > Well, I sorta said `stty discard undef' would set discard to `u'... Oh okay, it did on a non FreeBSD machine though... Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations