Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: using tip Message-ID: <1991Mar4.200209.6621@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 01:01:43 GMT References: <1163@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University Lines: 25 >Tip works okay for normal no-frills usage. >however, i see the same problem you do when trying to use ~t. What shell are you using on the remote machine? Does it treat control-A in a special way? When you use tip to ~take a file, it sends the command cat file; echo ^A to the remote machine, and then it sucks characters until it sees a control-A. If your login shell on the remote machine does something goofy with ^A, this will never work. Tcsh and possibly some other shells use ^A to mean "Go to beginning of line", thus hopelessly messing up the tip "protocol" (sic). Try starting up a plain vanilla /bin/sh on the remote machine just before you ~take a file and see if that fixes it. I've seen this particular problem happen, and using /bin/sh made it go away. Steve -- Steve Hayman Workstation Manager Computer Science Department Indiana U. sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (812) 855-6984 NeXT Mail: sahayman@spurge.bloomington.in.us