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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Terminal Death ;-{
Date: 24 Feb 1996 16:16:56 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com> writes:
> We have a problem on FreeBSD 2.1 where breaking out of some
> programs (e.g. man) causes a loss of terminal echo - only to be
> restored using "stty sane". Is there a fix for this?
The fix: fix all those programs to properly SIGINT and SIGTERM, and
restore the tty state before exiting.
The workaround: use a shell that does it for you, e.g. tcsh.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)