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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Remote xterm strategy
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.213940.11542@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 7 Jan 90 21:39:40 GMT
References: <90Jan6.054031est.2293@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <6517@ogicse.ogc.edu> <32711@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <32711@news.Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Of course, the solution to this is to specify "-e <untypable char>" in the
>rlogin line.  The strange thing is that no one here seems to do this.

I don't know about your rlogin, but on the standard BSD rlogin, -e is
followed immediately by the character to use, and if none is given,
the escape feature is turned off.  In other words, just use -e with
no character and it will do what you expect.

The reason that people don't generally do this is that it's yet another
strange Unix-ism (like ZZ or W or $ in vi).  Some people would rather
deal with the ~ problem than to do it right.  Heck, you can even point
out obvious bugs in programs to some people and hand them the fix and
they won't use it.
-- 
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