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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!newsdaemon From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) Subject: Re: How to disable "^S"(suspend) while using tip? Message-ID: <1992Aug27.191636.4903@engage.pko.dec.com> Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Reply-To: ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <17i6i6INNjot@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:16:36 GMT Lines: 40 In article <17i6i6INNjot@agate.berkeley.edu>, randyc@soda.berkeley.edu (Yen-Pang Randy Chou) writes: > From: randyc@soda.berkeley.edu (Yen-Pang Randy Chou) > Subject: How to disable "^S"(suspend) while using tip? > Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association > Hi there, > Does anyone know how disble "^S" (suspend) while using tip? Also, everytime > I dial in to school and use emacs, I need to press "^p" twice before the > cursor moves up. Is that because I'm using tcsh at home? Is there anyway > I can disable it too? > ---Randy The reason ^P doesn't work is because it is the default character to "force" transmission of a character. That's because tip uses some control characters locally. These characters include ^A and ^P. I do not know if ^S is one of them; to find it if it is, or something else, type ^P^S and see if it gets sent to the remote system. You can change these bindings by setting the local variables raisechar (^A, which forces all output to uppercase) and force (^P) to something else. To set them do a <RETURN> ~s escape, then type raisechar=<character> force=<character> etc. I do not know how you disable them, try either raisechar= or !raisechar. As for ^S, check first the" stty -a" settings and see "ixon" is set; change it to -ixon if it is. This may or may not work. You must also see if the remote system is configured to recognize ^S as suspend or pass it through; check the same setting on your remote machine. Finally, check to see if either modem is doing in-band flow control. Eric -- /=============================================================================\ | Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-| | Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; | | ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). | \==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/