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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SANE Values
Keywords: stty, gettydefs, SysV
Message-ID: <3556@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 20:59:27 GMT
References: <145@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <145@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>	"sane	resets all modes to some reasonable values."
>
>But, nowhere does it say what those reasonable values are, nor why they
>are considered reasonable.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

Well, try this:

	$ stty -a # or -all or everything or whatever it is
	$ stty sane
	$ stty -a # or -all or everything or whatever it is

and then stare at the differences.  It usually sets things up similar to the
way it "used to be".  Like @ and # as editing chars, DEL as intr, etc.
-- 
Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm
		Use the force - read the source.