xterm *sometimes* gives odd message and control keys don't function

[Ed Kubaitis]

We have seen a similar problem, except it does not seem to involve X or AIX, 
but rather ksh and rlogin. We have a Vaxserver here running BSD Tahoe Unix.
An rlogin to a signon on this machine with ksh as the login shell leaves 
/dev/tty inaccessible and job control (^Z) inoperative. An rlogin to a 
signon with csh as the login shell works fine, as does a telnet to a ksh
login. You might try changing the relevant login shell to csh as an
experiment and see if the job control problem seems to go away. 

I'd be interested if the login shell does affect the behavior of your problem
as no-one here really understands this somewhat different problem we see.

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Ed Kubaitis (ejk at uxh.cso.uiuc.edu)
Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana