Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!daemon From: William "Chops" Westfield Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: escape-character selection Message-ID: <33402@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 18 Mar 91 21:57:04 GMT Sender: daemon@boulder.Colorado.EDU Lines: 26 We are installing several cisco terminal servers and were wondering what other sites selected as their escape-character. We are considering using either the default CONTROL-^ or no escape-character. Using the default character allows you to use the special commands like Abort Output and Are You There?. If you use no escape-character you get the convenience of just pressing the BREAK key, but then the special commands are not available. Are there other characters we should consider? What character do you use? What are your experiences using the character your site selected? It shouldn't be any surprise that at cisco we use mostly the default control-^ as the escape character. This is essentially the "character- least-likely-to-be-needed-by-emacs", and it in any case usually so awkward to type that the addition effort to type it twice is minimal. On the other hand, the various telnet commands are very rarely used, so setting up BREAK as the escape character isn't likely to cause many problems either. And in emergencies, each user can change the escape character to whatever they like for the duration of their session... Bill Westfield cisco Systems. -------