sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) (08/10/88)
Recently, I upgraded my PC from MS-DOS 3.1 to 3.2. Now when I type CONTRO-U to kill a line or CONTROL-W to kill a word nothing happens. I went through the MS-DOS documentation looking for a way to generate these effects, but I couldn't find anything. Is there an MS-DOS equivalent to the UNIX stty(1) command for setting terminal options? Anything in the public domain? --Dan -- Daniel Sears Sun Microsystems, Inc. Technical Publications MS 5-42 (415) 336-7435 2550 Garcia Avenue sears@sun.com Mountain View, CA 94043
link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) (08/10/88)
In article <63676@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: >Recently, I upgraded my PC from MS-DOS 3.1 to 3.2. Now when I type CONTRO-U >to kill a line or CONTROL-W to kill a word nothing happens. I went through >the MS-DOS documentation looking for a way to generate these effects, but >I couldn't find anything. Is there an MS-DOS equivalent to the UNIX stty(1) >command for setting terminal options? Anything in the public domain? All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. Absolutely great product advertising! Maybe you should post in rec.humor! Rick Link Space Sciences Laboratory link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (a Sun system!)
davis@clocs.cs.unc.edu (Mark Davis) (08/10/88)
In article <13130@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: >All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters >really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. > >Absolutely great product advertising! Maybe you should post in rec.humor! > >Rick Link >Space Sciences Laboratory >link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (a Sun system!) Come on. Be serious. Are you telling me that every student at berkeley who has a login knows everthing there is to know about System V streams? After all, your organization (berkeley) does design operating systems that kind of do the same thing. By the way, how much do you know about System V streams? Or disk drivers for Miniscribe disks? I think that it is great that employees of a growing workstation computer system company are interested enough in their work that they have their own machines and want to improve them. I would even feel good if people at IBM where asking these questions. Maybe then PC DOS 5.0 would be a better product. The only dumb question is the one that is not asked. (You may consider this a flame) Thanks - Mark (davis@cs.unc.edu or decvax!mcnc!davis)
ken@nsc.nsc.com (Ken Trant) (08/11/88)
in article <13130@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) says: % In article <63676@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: %>Recently, I upgraded my PC from MS-DOS 3.1 to 3.2. Now when I type CONTRO-U %>to kill a line or CONTROL-W to kill a word nothing happens. I went through %>the MS-DOS documentation looking for a way to generate these effects, but %>I couldn't find anything. Is there an MS-DOS equivalent to the UNIX stty(1) %>command for setting terminal options? Anything in the public domain? % % % All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters % really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. % Absolutely great product advertising! Maybe you should post in rec.humor! % Rick Link % Space Sciences Laboratory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe he's an experiment. % link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (a Sun system!) I didn't know Sun made PC's (or compatibles). Do you expect everyone employed in the computer industry to know about all OS's?. -- PATH= Second star to the right, {...Ken Trant...} and straight on till morning "Official Sponsor, US Olympic Team" {...Merrill Lynch Realty...} 415-651-3131 *:-) 408-721-8158
phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (08/11/88)
In article <13130@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: >In article <63676@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: >>Recently, I upgraded my PC from MS-DOS 3.1 to 3.2. Now when I type CONTRO-U >>to kill a line or CONTROL-W to kill a word nothing happens. I went through > >All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters >really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. Mr. Link, you are way out of line here. I get the impression you get a lot of pleasure out of putting other people down. Try not to exhibit such traits in front of such a large audience. Daniel, you have several options. I have a patch for DOS which turns on ^U and ^W, to be applied to your system disk. There is a program going around which patchs DOS after it is loaded. Finally, you can use a TSR called history which also provides very nice command line editing. -- I speak for myself, not the company. Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com
link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) (08/11/88)
In article <5541@nsc.nsc.com> ken@nsc.nsc.com (Ken Trant) writes: >in article <13130@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) says: >% >% All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters >% really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. >% Absolutely great product advertising! Maybe you should post in rec.humor! Sorry to Dan Sears if he and others took offense - it was a slight attempt at humor. However, I do think that some people may take these postings a little too seriously. Rick Link link@ssl.berkeley.edu
rmpinchback@crocus.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback) (08/12/88)
In article <13130@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: >In article <63676@sun.uucp> sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears) writes: >>Recently, I upgraded my PC from MS-DOS 3.1 to 3.2. Now when I type CONTRO-U >>to kill a line or CONTROL-W to kill a word nothing happens. I went through ..... > > >All you people at Sun posting help messages for computer related matters >really instills great confidence in the end user of your systems. > >Absolutely great product advertising! Maybe you should post in rec.humor! > >Rick Link Wouldn't you rather know that the people at Sun are more interested in finding a solution to a problem, than trying to ignore it and kludge around it? There is nothing wrong with asking questions. That is how we learn. I'd rather THEY learn how to fix problems as much as possible (hopefully before shipping a product), than that they leave it to US to find the fixes. Reid M. Pinchback