Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:05:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: [: Re: Long-standing bugs and typos] |
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On 11 Mar 96 at 20:28, jkroeger@squirrel.owl.de wrote:
> > This is probably the reason why after I started using AcceleratedX > my xterms broke ... or at least it's a place to start. > > When I spawn an xterm now, kill is "#", erase is something nonstandard, > (I can't remember), and intr is "o". Not control characters, regular > ones. stty will fix all, but "#" will still kill, even though stty > thinks kill is ^U. > > Any idea where _this_ comes from? I'd like to recompile xterm but > can't find source for it that will compile on linux.
This comes from TTY, the teletype. '#' is kill, DEL is intr, ^H is erase. HP-UX uses them, too. I think it's the drivers standard. Every application that disagrees has to change them. Fortunately getty seems to do so.
> > -Dossy > > -- > URL: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~dossy --- E-MAIL: mailto:dossy@remus.rutgers.edu > Now I'm who I want to be, where I want to be, doing what I've always said I > would and yet I feel I haven't won at all... (Aug 9, 95: Goodbye, JG.) > "You should change your .sig; not that the world revolves around me." -s. sadie
Ulrich
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