"mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing?

[Rob Warnock]

In article <9106131853.AA18365 at aero36.larc.nasa.gov>
blbates at AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
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|    Have you tried pressing the Delete key?  We have 3.3.2 and ^C doesn't
| work, but "Delete" does.  Does any one know if this can be changed easily?
| It is kind of a annoying have to use "Delete" instead of ^C, but something
| I can put up with.
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You can also fix it by making sure you have a ~/.wshttymode file with the
TTY modes you want (e.g., intr = ^C). Since the wsh run under mailbox doesn't
see anything in your ~/.login file, it doesn't get whatever "stty" settings
you might have run. Here's mine:

	% cat .wshttymode
	d26:1805:cbf:3b:3:1c:8:15:4:0:0:1a:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:16:17:12:f:13:11:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1

To make your own, in a normal shell window set up the TTY the way you want it
(e.g., "stty intr ^c erase ^h kill ^u"), then type:

	% stty -g >.wshttymode

This will cause your interrupt/quit/etc keys under mailbox (and other programs
run in a wsh but not in a login shell) to be the same as when you said "stty".


-Rob

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