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From: oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard Oneill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Control-a strangeness with kermit5A...
Keywords: kermit, control-a, tcsh
Message-ID: <2683@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 91 08:24:39 GMT
References: <673761060@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard Oneill)
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <673761060@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry
Greenside) writes: 
> I am trying to use kermit5A with a Nextstation from home, and am
> finding an annoying problem when trying to type control-a (move cursor
> to beginning of line in emacs). If I type a control-a, then I have to
> type THREE copies of the next character before that character is
> understood. To get a real control-a, I have to type four control-a's.
> This occurs in tcsh and in emacs.

I don't think this is a problem with kermit, I'm using kermit5a(170) right
now, logged on to a machine at the university using emacs. C-a works just
fine.

	Richard.

P.S. I run OS2.1 if that matters.


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