Nate Johnston wrote:

> When I am in an xterm, or Eterm, and I execute from the shell a process that
> requires input, I can type in the input but the return key causes a status
> line to be displayed.  Here's a sample: in these examples I ssh to a machine
> on my local subnet.  The carriage return is being interpreted as a "status" 
> control character (if my exegesis of the stty man page is correct).
> 
> I am currently running NetBSD 1.5T on a Sony Vaio Z505LEK.  I have replicated
> this error on dell and compaQ desktops, running NetBSD as far back as 1.4.1,
> although I no longer have those machines available.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help on this perplexing problem.
> 
> nate@johnston:~ stty
> speed 38400 baud;
> lflags: echoe echok echoke echoctl pendin
> iflags: -ixany ignpar
> oflags: -oxtabs
> cflags: cs8 -parenb -hupcl
> status
> ^J

There's your problem - carriage-return and line-feed are generally
handled pretty much the same ("stty -all" should list "inlcr", which
means map NL to CR), and you have ^J (newline) set as your status char.
Traditionally, ^T is used for status - have you got something in a
.cshrc, .login or .profile that sets this differently?

Simon.
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