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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!dhawk From: dhawk@netcom.com (David H) Subject: ^J/^M Problem -- Anyone seen this? Message-ID: <dhawkDJ59Ft.A0C@netcom.com> Organization: Decline to State Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 02:55:04 GMT Lines: 17 Sender: dhawk@netcom2.netcom.com Background: have a conferencing system running on FreeBSD 2.0.5. A user wrote a 'newuser' program that allows new users to sign up. He used the 'getpasswd' (sp?) system call to get a password from them in raw mode and unechoed. When I run his program (telnet in from SunOS 4.1.3) it won't take a password without a ^J (control-J). Then I realized another home-written program was having the same problem -- it won't take a line of input unless it's terminated with ^J (This was code that was working under Linux.) Anyone seen this? Something I can fix in 2.0.5? Fixed in 2.1? later, david -- David Hawkins dhawk@netcom.com As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. -- Buddha