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From: wwm@wa8tzg..mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: How do you change the ua 'kill' character???
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.011852.596@wa8tzg.mi.org>
Date: 10 Feb 91 01:18:52 GMT
Sender: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Distribution: usa
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ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!!

After 3 days pawing through TFM's, sprinkling 'stty kill ^U' and 'tset -s'
in every *profile *rc and such that I can find, scoping /usr/bin/ua with
'strings' and 'od' I've given up.

How the $!@$ do you change the ua line-kill character from '@' to '^U'
(or something else that doesn't get used in mail addresses, Makefiles, etc)??

No matter what I try, shells spawned by the ua have 'kill' reset to '@'!
Selecting 'Full-screen UNIX' invokes my .kshrc and 'kill' becomes '^U' just
like I want.  But invoke 'elm' from an Office menu or a ! escape and try
mailing something to 'foo@bar' without escaping the '@' and see what you
get.  BAH!  HUMBUG!.

I might not care so much but the rest of the family (wife and two teenage
daughters) is beginning to get interested in Net News, mailing lists and the
like.  They can follow the idea of copying an address like 'foo@bar' from
a crib sheet, but escaping characters is still not in their mental working 
set.  Hey, getting them to use UNIX at all is a big breakthrough! (Especcially
since their other encounters with computers at school has been with Macs!)

Even an 'RTFM' WITH THE F***ING PAGE NUMBER would be appreciated.

Thanks to all!
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