Subject: Re: Ctrl C won't work on our MACs

From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 5 Apr 1995 09:47:39 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Jean Kent) says:

>We have several MACs attached to our local campus network and many people 
>have complained that Ctrl C doesn't work.

    I'm on a Mac with NCSA telnet right now, with two simultaneous sessions.
With this telnet session I have no problem with the Emacs ^X^C.  (SunOS)
    With the other session, I can't use ^C without a program aborting, and
the RETURN in Pine or Emacs acts as a ^J linefeed, and when I resume a ^Z
suspended session, the terminal is in a very weird mode.  (BSD386)

    I've learned to use the ESC ESC x sequence in place of the ^x character,
so when I forget and hit RETURN in the header, I try to remember to use
ESC ESC C to cancel the request for an attachment.  It's ugly, but it
works, and for it I am grateful, since I've had to use it more often than
I care to think.  I suspect there's some interaction between the NCSA telnet
client and the telnetd on the host, and I know I've seen the solution here
before, so I suspect it will be reposted...

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From: Jean Kent <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 20:46:56 -0700

We have several MACs attached to our local campus network and many people 
have complained that Ctrl C doesn't work.  Thus, they can't cancel 
messages, etc.

I was told that changing the .profile file would correct the problem.  I 
substituted ^? for ^H.   It didn't work.

We are running Pine on an HP9000, unix platform.

Help!
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