>Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Colin Wood wrote:
>>
>> > is this in an xterm or on the console (or in dt)?  if it's X, you can
>> > check to see what the X server is getting in the way of keystrokes by
>> > using xev.  you don't do anything strange with your terminal settings, do
>> > you?
>>
>> Nothing but the defaults for terminal settings.  Behavior is as would be
>> expected in any other environment.
>>
>> This occurs in telnet sessions (NCSA Telnet).  Doesn't seem to happen with
>> an xterm, nor on the console (vt100 or vt220).  Sounds like maybe it's a
>> Telnet application setting?  I guess I hadn't noticed the differing
>> behaviors.
>
>that would be my guess.  i'd check the various options dialogs to see what
>it's sending for carriage returns.  something's probably swapped
>somewhere, and pico just doesn't handle it well (which is a little
>strange, but what can you do?)


Heh, a friend of mine & I just found that he doesn't have a return
functionality in "talk" when he's telnetted from his school's sun into my
netbsd/alpha system. This is problemmatic whether he's sitting at the
xterminal or whether he's at home using PPP to telnet (using CRT under Win)
into the sun, & in turn telnetting into my box. If, however, he telnets
directly from CRT to my alpha, & talks, then he can return. I hadn't tried
using talk directly to the x terminal since I've rarely had good luck with
talk on Suns, although I used to hack it to work on my wife's acct (I
forget whether it was talk or ntalk). Before he told me that it worked
directly from CRT, I had thought it was just a cr versus lf versus crlf
thing with windows being the odd-man-out, but it's odd that the sun
wouldn't use the same thing as my BSD machine...We see ^M when he hits
return (sorry, I mean Enter...I'm a Mac guy). It's tough to settle on
options for returns & erase keys when you use so many different systems. My
wife used to log into her school shell acct from the Mac lab, the PeeCee
lab, wyse terminal and from home, & it seemed that no two liked the same
erase key ;-). I set up a command "seterasekey" that would change her
variable to the opposite of whatever it was by default & told her to just
type that if erase didn't work.

Mike
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