[comp.sys.mips] trouble with rlogin to mips

larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) (02/19/91)

The answer was supplied by "Joshua E. Smith" <karkar.bbn.com!jesmith>.
Thank you Joshua.

As Joshua stated...
 > 
 > We had all sorts of problems with csh + set lineedit until we
 > added:
 > 
 > /bin/stty -istrip -ixon
 > 
 > to our .login's.  The -istrip is necessary to let the 8th (meta)
 > bit in, and the -ixon tells something in the system not to do
 > xon/xoff when buffering limits are hit (input or output).
 > 

Sure enough, that's it!

Works like a champ. We get our Emacs line editing again.

-Larry