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From: mos@fys.ruu.nl (Henk Mos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Tab settings
Message-ID: <1991May25.222326.4296@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 25 May 91 22:23:26 GMT
References: <5659@mhres.mh.nl>
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht
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In <5659@mhres.mh.nl> rvk@snoopy.mh.nl (Mark Reuvekamp) writes:

>We are running Ultrix 4.1 on a DECsystem 5000/100 and have trouble
>with the terminal. Sometime the TAB settings get messed up. We don't
>know what program causes this, it does seem to occur at random.

We have the same problems. Sometimes 'stty -tab' will work. I asked
DEC about this problem and they suggested that it's caused by the
the up/down arrow command recall of csh (which doesn't work very good
anyway). Using tcsh should overcome this problem but I haven't noticed
any improvements.

Henk Mos

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