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- From: brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BRANDAUER CARL M)
- Subject: Re: Wierd vi problem under Dynix/ptx
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.003152.15516@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <1992Aug27.013743.1381@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:31:52 GMT
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- Kim Holburn <kim@csc.canberra.edu.au> writes:
-
- >On a sequent running ptx. vi does weird things with @ and #
- >and maybe other letters. It treats them like some sort of control characters.
-
- You got the control character part right - have you tried them while using
- the shell? # is the erase character and @ the kill character from the days
- when a TTY37 (hardcopy) was the ne plus ultra of terminals. Use 'stty' to
- make the proper changes and everything will be fine.
-