[comp.windows.x] How to get "literal next" in xterm?

mf@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) (11/20/90)

Setup:  DECstation 3100
	Ultrix 4.1
	X11.R4 from MIT (including server)

It would seem that the "new" tty line discipline (NTTYDISC) does not work
absolutely well with xterm.  In particular, I can't get the "literal next"
to work correctly: while stty shows that the lnext character is ^V, there
is no way I can mask such special characters as ^C.  Help, anyone?

gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) (11/21/90)

    It would seem that the "new" tty line discipline (NTTYDISC) does not work
    absolutely well with xterm.  In particular, I can't get the "literal next"
    to work correctly: while stty shows that the lnext character is ^V, there
    is no way I can mask such special characters as ^C.  Help, anyone?

This is probably a shell or OS bug, not an xterm bug.  I get different
results depending on which shell I try it with.  For example, I could
not get any of the Ultrix shells to work, but most of the Sun ones
did.  All this with X11R4.

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   gildea@bbn.com			Cambridge, Massachusetts