taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft) (05/30/91)
Running tip as installed in the 2.1 release, I find that the ^A and ^P characters are preempted by the "raise" and "force" tip functions. Setting the !raise parameter appears not to have any effect (!raise is the default setting anyway). There is apparently not an analogous !force setting. I suppose I can set the raise and force functions to be characters I rarely use. But I would prefer to turn them off altogether. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Ed Taft taft@adobe.com ...decwrl!adobe!taft
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (06/02/91)
Ed Taft writes > Running tip as installed in the 2.1 release, I find that the ^A and ^P > characters are preempted by the "raise" and "force" tip functions. Setting > the !raise parameter appears not to have any effect (!raise is the default > setting anyway). There is apparently not an analogous !force setting. > > I suppose I can set the raise and force functions to be characters I rarely > use. But I would prefer to turn them off altogether. Does anyone know how to > accomplish this? There are two kinds of options in "tip". One is a toggle sort of option, where you just set it or !unset it. The other is a "variable" that takes a value. "raise" is a toggle, and it defaults to off, but you can toggle it during the session by typing the "raisechar". What you want to do is to change the value of "raisechar", not to turn off "raise". Once connected with tip, type <cr>~s (carriage return, tilde, s) and you will get the "[set]" prompt. Type "raisechar=<cr>" (type "raise=" and hit return). Do the analogous thing for "force". That should do the trick. You can also set these as defaults in your .tiprc file as follows: raisechar= force= -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) (06/03/91)
In article <515@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >Ed Taft writes >> I suppose I can set the raise and force functions to be characters I rarely >> use. But I would prefer to turn them off altogether. Does anyone know how to >> accomplish this? >You can also set these as defaults in your .tiprc file as follows: >raisechar= >force= Ed said he wanted to turn them off altogether. The .tiprc file trick does *NOT* turn them off. It sets those bloody characters to NUL. I am rapidly becoming fed up with tip. Not only does it have these two bogons, it also seems to be impossible to turn off XON/XOFF handling or get 8-bit transparency. At least if it is possible, it's unknown to me and our local UNIX gurus. The alleged tip function to turn off parity handling is equivalent to space parity. Kermit works better, but it has its own annoyances. I'm getting tempted to write a new program, although I feel a bit reluctant to inflict Yet Another Telnet-to-TTY program on the world. Has anyone written the ultimate dial program? -- DoD#105