tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) (10/23/90)
I have trouble with virtual terminals in AT&T Unix. Typing "uname -a"
gives me "humsa humsa 3.2 2.2 i386".
When I am doing a "cu", the terminal often hangs, accepting neither
input nor output. I can't switch to other virtual terminals. The only
thing I can do is log in from an external terminal and kill all
processes on the hung virtual terminal, which can be very time
consuming to restart.
I am trying to reproduce it, but it's hard. I think it generally
happens when I hit ctrl-c to stop output. Ctrl-c is my interrupt
character on both the remote and local hosts.
Sometimes, things get even worse. In all other virtual terminals where
I am *not* running a "cu", the keyboard is in a mode where it thinks I
have the control key held down. I have to hit 'd' (which it thinks is
ctrl-d) to exit the virtual terminal.
Any clues?
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Tom Reingold
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