Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!att!cbnews!mvadh From: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 610 terminal gone flakey Keywords: ....help, medic..... Message-ID: <3090@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 13 Jan 89 15:15:14 GMT References: <607@whizz.uucp> Reply-To: mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 35 In article <607@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes: [] " 1. When I backspace at the command-line, then enter another "command over the old one and hit , I get something like the "following: " " $ cat [type in command 'cat'] " $ [now use to back up] " $ ls [type in the new command] " $ cat^H^H^Hls [huh?] " $ cat^H^H^Hls: not found do a 'stty -a'. you want the erase code to be , but you'll find it's set to something else -- probably DEL. stty erase  will fix it. also check the access time of /etc/gettydefs (ls -l); this file contains stty settings for your login to start up with, and if it's been touched recently, it's probably been changed. " 2. When I am in the user-agent and attempt to remove files that "are queued up to print, I can only delete the first one - the down-arrow key "generates it's escape sequences (seen on the lower left portion of the screen), "but will not roll down. Also in this screen, I cannot use the mark key. The "signals are simply not going out to the box, evidently. Other screens seem ok, "though, of the several ones I went and checked. this is probably a variation of the above, but i don't know the proper settings. maybe you could get them by comparing the gettydefs for the console and your port. -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Apprentice Polymath | Yes, the wages of sin ARE death, but after they take | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | taxes out, it's kind of a tired feeling really | mvuxq.att.com!adh +------------------------------------------------------+