Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:03:36 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@munich.netsurf.de> To: Marco Masotti <MC7953@mclink.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tip From Remote Logins Message-ID: <199606101203.MAA22348@peedub.gj.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:46:47 EST." <9606100946.aa12157@ax433.mclink.it>
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Marco Masotti writes: >Dear all, > >I sometime access a modem connected to a remote FreeBSD 2.1R machine on a >lan. > >I access the modem for diagnostic purposes or so. The utility I use is >tip. The sequence is then 'do an rlogin onto the modem machine and the do >a tip to the modem. > >All this is fine, until a do ~. to disconnect tip. > >This action produces not to escape from tip, but to exit the remote login, >and what is worse leaving the tip session running, resulting in the modem >being busy for the next connect attempt - you have to kill the tip >processes by hand to recover. > >Can this be a problem with tip or what else? > read the rlogin manpage. `~' is also the escape character for rlogin. If you only want to exit tip, then use `~~.'. rlogin will strip the first `~' and pass the rest to tip. Or use telnet, it normally uses `^]' as its escape character. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de Work - gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
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