some users act differfently

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

filePro Mailing List averred (on Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:44:59PM -0700):
| On Fri, Oct 30, 2015, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
| >Users run filePro on a Unix server, connecting via ssh under Anzio.
| >
| >In a certain input processing, there is a choice to mail an invoice.
| >This works fine for all  but two users.
| >
| >These two users get hung up in filePro after electing to Send, unable
| >go close the screen (DelDel just prints a non-ascii character to the
| >screen).
| 
| This sounds like an 'stty intr' problem, or Anzio's mapping of
| the DEL key.
| 
| All my login profiles have "stty intr '^C' erase '^H'" to map the
| interrupt character to ctrl-C and erase to ctrl-H as $DEITY
| intended. 
| 
| When logged in on a Linux console I have fiddle things as they
| usually have the backspace key send DEL instead of ctrl-H.  I
| either manually use ctrl-H or "stty erase '^?'" to use the
| backspace key.


The problem command works for me, and I am logged in via Anzio to the
site.  It works for most of the customer's users, also logged via Anzio.

It does not work for two of their users, and it does not work for me if
I run "su" to "become" either of those users.

All uses of the DEL key to get out of a filePro routine, by any user,
including two problems users, work as expected, EXCEPT when executing
that certain SYSTEM command which leads to a freeze.

The processing table has many calls to the SYSTEM command.  Some start
another rclerk or an rreport, some run "pcl2pdf" or some other Unix
binary or script. The one that fails has this shape:

   system "<textfile mutt -a attachment1 attachment2 -- email at place.com"

-- 
JP