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From: pcc@apollo.COM (Peter Craine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: su
Message-ID: <443365b7.20291@apollo.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 89 15:30:00 GMT
References: <366@quintro.UUCP> <552@parcplace.pplace.COM>
Reply-To: pcc@starchai.UUCP (Peter Craine)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <552@parcplace.pplace.COM> khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw) writes:
>
>	I have to do "stty -tabs" to get ls listings to line
>	up right, but I don't have to do that for non-root
>	logins.

Users probably have "ts 9 -r" in their startup_dm.<display>.  Put one
in root's startup_dm and this will probably go away.

>
>	Hitting the HELP key only gets you generic Domain_OS
>	help, but not man files.  Non-root accounts get both
>	Domain_OS help and man files with the HELP key.

Sounds like key definitions.  Check out one non-root account's key definitions
and do appropriate 'kd's for root.

>
>(Not-necessarily-root) Domain_OS vi weirdities (no flames
>about using vi, please -- I have to work on many different Unix
>machines and it's not worth the aggravation to me to learn the DM
>editor):
>
>	Occasionally, if you open a shell window and start up
>	vi immediately, vi prints some complaint about not
>	knowing what an apollo_<mumble> terminal type is, goes
>	into line mode and then some state where it's hung.
>	If I kill the vi process and then again try vi in the
>	same window, it works fine.

Sounds like it's time for the generic vi problem-fixer.
        1) log on as root
        2) rm -rf /dev/ttyp* /dev/pty*
        3) /etc/mkdev /dev pty
        4) reboot the node.
This clears up the majority of vi problems.  For anything else, I'd
call the 800 number.

>
>	(Must be a keymap problem ...) ^^ (control-caret) doesn't
>	do anything (it's supposed to take you to the previous file
>	you were editing).  I also wish the bsd environment did
>	proper keymaps for ^u (kill line) and ^w (kill word).

Use your own keydefs.  Try (in the command window)
     kd ^u cms;tl;xd line_del ke
This will delete the line that your cursor is on.
[this is the current keydef for the <line delete> key.

>Mike Khaw

                Peter Craine, NACS

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