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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.term,net.wanted,net.periphs
Subject: Re: Super Terminal =~= HP 2645
Message-ID: <486@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 23:20:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 23:20:09 1983
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Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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I'm glad I found another 2645 fan.  I've been using this series of
tubes for years on mainly BTL UNIX varieties and here's what I do.
First of all my prompt or PS1 is PS1=':; '  To the Bourne shell this
is a null command which causes it to just go around its command loop
once.  Second I use stty to set my kill character to ^X which is a
non printing character.  Finally I set the -lfkc option which keeps
UNIX from echoing a LF-CR pair with the line kill. Echoing a line
feed-carriage return with the kill is a fairly recent phenom.
Then I use the editing keys do delete and insert. I can also just
overwrite if I want.  Then its just Control-X and enter.

I personally find all these variant shells with their history
mechanisms overrated.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					AT&T Information Systems
					Laboratories, Holmdel
					(201) 834-3759
					ariel!jlw