joe@loonam.UUCP (Joseph R. Mann) (03/14/85)
Some inexpensive terminals don't support the pipe and telde, specifically a Commodore Vic. In my quest for making UNIX available to the masses, one user of this system is having great difficulty with those characters. Does anyone know how to substitute a character (control-a, for example) for the pipe character, to the shell? Control-a is one of the unused function keys on the Vic. Thanks in advance. Joe.
mikeh@haddock.UUCP (03/18/85)
Hi, sh(1) has undocumented alternate pipe character, "^" (carrot, ascii 0136). I think this dates back to the days when people used teletype 33's as ttys. Still, lack of vertical bar will frustate C programming. Mike Hiller Intetactive Systems
rick@cadtec.UUCP (Rick Auricchio) (03/21/85)
Expires: Sender: Keywords: -------- [] In article <397@haddock.UUCP> mikeh@haddock.UUCP writes: > sh(1) has undocumented alternate pipe character, "^" (carrot, > ascii 0136). I think this dates back to the days when people > used teletype 33's as ttys. Still, lack of vertical bar will > frustate C programming. The 33 *is* a tty, which is one reason people *used* them as ttys. :-) ============================================================================== Opinions expressed have been generated solely by line-noise. Rick Auricchio Cadtec Corp. 2355 Old Oakland Rd, San Jose CA 95131 {cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!cadtec!rick N1150G (408) 942-1535 "This space available"
chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) (03/21/85)
> Hi, > sh(1) has undocumented alternate pipe character, "^" (carrot, > ascii 0136). A trivia point for you semanticists: that's "caret", not "carrot." Charlie @ the Death Star, Illinois.