Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!focsys!larry
From: larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson)
Subject: Re: trouble with rlogin to mips (Solution!)
In-Reply-To: larry@focsys.uucp's message of 14 Feb 91 08:22:23
Message-ID: <LARRY.91Feb19121629@focsys.uucp>
Sender: larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson)
Organization: Focus Automation Systems Inc. Waterloo, Ontario.
References: <LARRY.91Feb13103322@focsys.uucp> <LARRY.91Feb14082223@focsys.uucp>
Date: 19 Feb 91 12:16:29
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The answer was supplied by "Joshua E. Smith" <karkar.bbn.com!jesmith>.
Thank you Joshua.

As Joshua stated...
 > 
 > We had all sorts of problems with csh + set lineedit until we
 > added:
 > 
 > /bin/stty -istrip -ixon
 > 
 > to our .login's.  The -istrip is necessary to let the 8th (meta)
 > bit in, and the -ixon tells something in the system not to do
 > xon/xoff when buffering limits are hit (input or output).
 > 

Sure enough, that's it!

Works like a champ. We get our Emacs line editing again.

-Larry