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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!akh104.rh.psu.edu!root From: root@akh104.rh.psu.edu (Andrew K. Heller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: editor break out question... Date: 9 Oct 1993 17:24:12 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <296s3s$61m@genesis.ait.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: akh104.rh.psu.edu X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 very often the system locks and hangs..or appears to hang now and I get stuck in this editor mode that nothing will escape from...everything is interpretted literally i.e. ctrl c comes up ^c etc... if I have screen running...I can kill the processes my other session was running and usually regain control of the locked session. if im not running screen and I log in as root and type a command it it puts me in this mode...I have to reboot the Netbsd-9 system. I am beginning to think that if the system cant interpret a certain command paramitter or the function doesnt exist the machine goes into this mode. any help? root@akh104.rh.psu.edu