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Make sure you have that .profile set up correctly on the HP3000

The control keys don't seem to be registering with the shell. This is saying that ^Y should be able to interrupt a program. And ^@ should be able to stop input. But it's being ignored. Trying to set eof to ^D doesn't work either.

Make sure you have the following in your .profile:

# enable ^y
export HPSHELLINT=1

--SteveElmer^?

(1) The "SH" UDC sets your CWD to hphgroup.!hpacct regardless of where you are, and won't work if you have no home group. Yuck. I prefer to set it to hpgroup.!hpacct.

(2) As noted previously, "man" is broken, so "export MANPATH='/usr/man'"

(3) better check TERM if you change /etc/profile

ChrisRansom^? and I had an offline discussion about vi, cursor keys, and curses in general; this led to the annoying behavior of man, more, etc., enabling the TransmitFunctions^? terminal configuration and leaving it that way afterward (annoying when you don't expect it). The terminfo entry for hp2392a includes a reset sequence but it is unused or uncalled (curses!). Then Chris sent this to me which I think is valuable enough to share:

On Thu, 08 Dec 94 14:36:21 PDT you said:
]I figured it out. This seems to actually work. I took a tip from DOS prompt
]programming and changed my prompt string to contain the escape sequence:
]
]   export PS1="^[&s0A"\$PWD$
]
]And, believe it or not, vi is smart enough to re-enable xmit fkeys if you
]escape to the shell and return to vi. This also solves problems with "more"
]screwing up your terminal, etc...

--JeffKell

I would recommend using "hp2392a" since it is a more complete description of a HP terminal than "hp".

Anyway, I use VI as my editor-of-choice on 5.0. You need an ".exrc" file in your home directory (for example /CHRIS/PUB/.exrc). It should contain map statements to translate your cursor keys into the VI directional commands. For example:

   map ESC-A  k
   map ESC-D  h
   map ESC-C  l
   map ESC-B  j

Where "ESC-A" is actually escape+A in the .exrc file (hard to display here).

I'm fairly certain that an HP-UX .exrc file will work fine if copied over to MPE/iX.

As Mark Klein points out, you need to have "Transmit Function Keys" enabled for your terminal. This is enabled automatically by curses(?) when vi is run.

--ChrisRansom^?

-- ChrisBartram - 09 Jun 2006

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