Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!scrumpy!toby!larryd From: larryd@toby.bnr.ca (Larry Dunkelman) Subject: Re: Problem with tip Message-ID: <1991Feb24.034334.5716@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> Sender: news@scrumpy@.bnr.ca (USENET (SY)) Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada. References: <1991Feb23.114432.26318@pronto.mh.nl> Distribution: comp Date: Sun, 24 Feb 91 03:43:34 GMT In article <1991Feb23.114432.26318@pronto.mh.nl> Johan Vromans writes: >Well, it may not be a tip problem, but nevertheless... > >Scenario: > > - From a DECstation3100, Ultrix4.0, I open a DXterm session on a > VAXstation3100 with Ultrix 3.1: > > dxterm -e rlogin host > > - From this window, I use tip to connect to a remote system via a > modem. > > - When finished with the remote system, I type "~." to tip. Almost > immediately the DXterm window disappears. 'rlogin' also uses "~" as its escape character. In your case, to exit the 'tip' session you must type "~~." Another way around this problem is either to use a different escape character for 'rlogin' (eg. rlogin -e@) or to define a different escape character to 'tip' in your .tiprc file (es=@). Hope this helps. Larry Dunkelman Bell-Northern Research larryd%bnrmtl@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com