Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!vixie!paul From: paul@vixie.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: tip(1c), ^A, ^P, and my diffs to kill the both of them Message-ID: <653@vixie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 13:43:33 EDT Article-I.D.: vixie.653 Posted: Thu Jun 11 13:43:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 09:52:04 EDT References: <2071@emory.UUCP> <6947@mimsy.UUCP> <1075@bobkat.UUCP> <6969@mimsy.UUCP> <651@vixie.UUCP> Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco Lines: 41 Keywords: rlogin tip cu I'm sending this out a second time because I think it got eaten by a neighbor the first time. If you've seen it before, my apologies. In article <6969@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >[...] I once borrowed someone else's tip session. I >discovered that ^A acted as a caps-lock, and that one had to type >^P twice to send one. It was obvious that ^P was being used as an >escape character (it *is* DLE, Data Link Escape, after all). I >considered this obnoxious enough that I never used it again. [...] This seems to have been added in 4.3; at least, I never noticed this in the 4.2 version. I was sufficiently disgusted with the ^A and ^P behaviour that I hacked tip to have two new variables: 'set noforce' (or :nf: in the /etc/remote file) means: don't do the ^P stuff, just treat ^P as a normal character 'set noraise' (or :nr: in remote) means: don't do the ^A/CAPSLOCK stuff, normal character, etc. The changes were simple, and I could post diffs. The man page doesn't mention many of the variables in the source, and the man page for remote(5) doesn't mention a different set of things. I thought of updating the man pages, but the task overwhelmed me. I'd like to post the whole thing. Is this BSD-only code? What are the licensing hassles if it is? Obviously if it's ATT-derived, I can only post diffs, but what about BSD-pure stuff? Chris? You answered the last question about BSD policies -- got a quick answer to this one? -- Paul A Vixie Esq 329 Noe Street {ptsfa, crash, hoptoad, ucat}!vixie!paul San Francisco ptsfa!vixie!paul@ames.ames.arc.nasa.gov CA 94116 paul@vixie.UUCP (415) 864-7013 -- Paul A Vixie Esq 329 Noe Street {ptsfa, crash, hoptoad, ucat}!vixie!paul San Francisco ptsfa!vixie!paul@ames.ames.arc.nasa.gov CA 94116 paul@vixie.UUCP (415) 864-7013