Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!rdg
From: rdg@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: setting the switch char in shl -- HELP
Message-ID: <5570032@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 88 19:15:21 GMT
References: <5508@columbia.edu>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
Lines: 24


> Can I set the switch character in shl (shell layers) to be BREAK? 
> Using inband signalling (to borrow a term) doesn't seem quite right,
> especially since there is no way to send that character (via escaping it or 
> typing it twice, like ~ in rlogin). I am running HPUX 6.0 on a 9000/350,
> and I want to be able to have more than one things going on at once
> when I'm logged on through the tty port (and a pair of modems).

Sorry, you cannot set the switch character to BREAK, as BREAK is
not a character. (How would you issue the command? "stty swtch \what?")

Most people are able to find a character that isn't used elsewhere.
I have used control-E and DEL (control-?) with success.

If you really really really need this capability, send me mail
and we'll discuss it. (It is possible.)


    Rob Gardner                     {ihnp4!hpfcla,hplabs!hpfcdc}!rdg
    Hewlett Packard                 or rdg%hpfcmr@hplabs.hp.com
    Fort Collins, Colorado          303-229-2048
		80525-9599

		     "Ask me about Home Brewing"