CTRL-Z to Toggle Inverse does nothing

[Frank Schenkhuizen, Jr.]

Just want to confirm that CTRL-Z in screen update does absolutely nothing.

I've gone to one of my dumb terminals (dt100 emulation) where everything
used to manipulate the screen is a CTRL function...the CTRL-Z does
absolutely nothing. All else functions as it should.


FS

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+tridecs=ix.netcom.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+tridecs=ix.netcom.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Campbell
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:01 PM
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: CTRL-Z to Toggle Inverse does nothing

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Fairlight wrote:
>Is it just me, or did Bill Campbell say:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Frank Schenkhuizen, Jr. wrote:
>> >Like I said before, I haven't changed anything in my system for years,
now I
>> >have an opportunity to spend some time enhancing a few things. The
CTRL-Z
>> >always worked just fine before, now it does nothing. 
>> >
>> >I this also something that may have been affected when moving to SCO
Rel.
>> >6.0? Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? It does not function
on
>> >the console and I've tried several TERM settings to see if that would
help
>> >on my PC's.
>> 
>> The ctrl-Z only works with shell that support job control,
>> /bin/ksh, /bin/bash, but not /bin/sh.  Perhaps your old system
>> had /bin/ksh or /bin/bash linked to /bin/sh?
>
>Erm...  I'm confused on what you're thinking, Bill.
>
>^Z only works -as SIGSUSP- in shells with POSIX job control.  The OP is
>talking about fP's ^Z inverse text toggle not working--which would only
>work inside a shell -without- POSIX job control.  Under those shells, you
>have to remap either fP's key, or set SIGSUSP to something else with stty.

Not being an FilePro user/programmer, I was not aware of that.

>If he says it does nothing, then neither is working.  I'd think he'd notice
>a "Suspended" notice that, and not just say it does nothing.

When we were doing a lot of Unix classes, it was amazing how many
people's ``vi'' sessions ended with ctrl-Z instead of ZZ so there
would be multiple suspended editing sessions (not using vim which
would have warned of the .swp file :-).

Bill
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