According to Frederick Bruckman:
>
>Do you have "EscapeChar none" in .ssh/config? Without that, the
>session tends to hang everytime it sees a tilde '~'.
>

every time it sees a tilde at the beginning of a line :-)  No, I did
not have this, I tried it and I could actually write an email without
emacs hanging.  What I don't understand is why the whole link went
down, I could not ping any remote machines over the link at all which
makes no sense to me.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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