Mandel@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Mandel) (06/24/88)
My host is also a Multics system, like Dockmaster, and there's a very
simple fix for the loss of # while uploading. # is Multics's default
"erase" character, as @ is its default "kill-line" character. When I'm
uploading a text file, I first issue the command
stty -modes ^erkl
This command turns off erase and kill processing in the terminal-input.
Any occurrences in the input of the current erase and kill characters
are taken literally and passed straight through to the file. When done,
I tell it
stty -modes erkl
to turn erase/kill processing back on.
-- Mark Mandel
* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, think, do, or eat. *gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (06/25/88)
In article <880624132001.871011@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA> Mandel@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Mandel) writes: ># is Multics's default "erase" character, as @ is its default "kill-line" >character. The same is true of UNIX, but (a) interactive users almost invariably reset these to control characters, typically ^H and ^U. (b) mail transfer is done by programs that take care of all aspects of the protocol, e.g. SMTP.