CTRL-Z to Toggle Inverse does nothing

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:29:44AM -0700, Frank Schenkhuizen, Jr. wrote:
> 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.

It's possible 6.0 has left you with a terminal driver that understands
SUGSUSP, but a shell which does not; the terminal driver would eat the
Ctrl-Z, but the shell would ignore the signal.

Check 'stty -a' and see if ^Z is mentioned.

If so, put "stty susp ''" and see if that fixes it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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