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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: CTRL-Keys under SCO Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.200801.29485@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:08:01 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.010608.1659@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <1992Jul24.010608.1659@cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Horatio Gadsplatt III) writes:
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- | Having long used csh on SunOs, I have become very used to, and familiar with
- | keystrokes such as CTRL-Z Stopping a process and CTRL-C killing One.
- |
- | However, recently, I started to use SCO Unix. I noticed that neither
- | of these worked.
-
- The defaults for erase, kill, intr, and susp are not the same on SysV
- as BSD. This is not related to SCO. Use stty to change them.
-
- | Now, the system has been hacked seriously for security reasons, so something
- | might have affected this.
-
- The system has NOT "been hacked seriously for security reasons," it
- was egregiously mutilated with malice aforethought, IMHO. With the
- worst ratio of added security to administrative inconvenience I could
- imagine. Don't get me started on this one...
-
- However, SCO did listen to their customers, and I'm happy to say
- that ODT 2.0 seems to have fixed this completely. You can dial in as
- little security as you need, while getting as much security as you need.
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-