Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ptsfa!dmt
From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <4915@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 16:21:43 GMT
References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <10639@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5404@ficc.uu.net> <9729@alice.UUCP> <10665@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9747@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <9747@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <10665@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>}In article <9729@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>}>We could hardly believe our eyes when we discovered that this local command
>}>line editing went away in the new and "improved" AT&T 630 MTG terminal. (sigh)
>I don't know the 5620 firmware, only Rob's "mux" interface.
>On the 630 I cannot type a command, say "ls file", then click before the
>"f", type "-l", click at the end of the line, press return and have
>the shell execute "ls -l file". That's what I mean by local command line
>editing, and that's not possible on the 630 because it operates in full
>duplex.

Your 5620 and 630 operate differently than mine.

My 630 allows command editing the way your 5620 does; none of my 5620s do this.

The 630 has a built-in editor that allows clicking to insert or delete
characters; the 5620 does not.

I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me how I can upgrade my 5620s to work
like yours. I'm using SVR2.1.0, SVR3.1.1 and SVR3.2 with layers.





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