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Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Shivkumar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:01:46 GMT

Hi,

I use SecureCRT Version 5.5.3 to connect to HP unix servers.

Sometime when i copy and paste to the terminal i see the command pasted 2 times.

Is this problem with terminal or secureCRT ?
I usually see this problem with couple of unix servers.

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:29:57 GMT

hi,

its a setting of your session,

did you try to make the same setting from scratch ???

mikap

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Bill Hassell — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:35:39 GMT

There are many ways to copy and paste with SecureCRT. You can highlight the text and press CTRL+Insert, then paste the result in the same window or Notepad or Word or another SecureCRT windows with Shift+Insert.

Or you can highlight the text, then press the left mouse button and you'll see a selection of copy/paste options. In the same window, the copy+paste option is quite useful.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Shivkumar — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:50:29 GMT

I was trying to copy from notepad and pasting on terminals.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Steven Schweda — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:37:22 GMT

> I was trying to copy from notepad and
> pasting on terminals.

If the problem is with copy and paste between
two programs running on a Windows system,
then does it really have anything to do with
HP-UX?

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Bill Hassell — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:20:27 GMT

> I was trying to copy from notepad and pasting on terminals.

Still lots of choices: How did you copy from Notepad? Did you highlight the text then use CTRL+Insert or CTRL+v? Or have you turned on the Windows copy-paste option in SecureCRT (see http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/nl102004.html for details). And when you pasted the text, did you use CTRL-v or Shift+Insert? Or do you use a special macro that enables the right mouse button to paste text?

Is this behavior 100% repeatable or is it erratic? Do you have a flaky keyboard or mouse? Are you pasting into a vi session or just on the shell's command line? Or are you pasting into a special application?

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Shivkumar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:19:53 GMT

I have you turned on the Windows copy-paste option in SecureCRT.

I become powerbroker user and paste the commands on the shell prompt from mouse middle button for paste.

Is there any command to refresh terminal/tty ?

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Bill Hassell — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:59:04 GMT

> I become powerbroker user and paste the commands on the shell prompt from mouse middle button for paste.

It is fairly unusual to use a 3 button mouse -- this is more common with Xwindows. Try using standard Windows shortcuts instead, Shift+Insert or Ctrl-v.

> Is there any command to refresh terminal/tty ?

Refresh? Do you mean reset the SecureCRT settings? Or do you mean how to recall a previous shell command?

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Shivkumar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:14:35 GMT

I mean refreshing the tty terminals. I know there is some commands but don't remember now.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Bill Hassell — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:05:29 GMT

> I mean refreshing the tty terminals.

I don't know what refresh means. Do you mean how to clear the screen? If you are running vi, then the character CTRL-L will rewrite the screen. There is no such feature in the shell as the shell does not remember the screen contents.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Shivkumar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:13:22 GMT

Thanks Bill.

Sometime tty terminal freezes and we can't type anything on the terminal. This is probably due to some mistake while type keyboard characters.

So what are those characters which locks the terminals and how to unlock it ?

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Dennis Handly — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:56:04 GMT

>So what are those characters which locks the terminals and how to unlock it?

After years, I finally figured out how to do this with an hpterm. Just use xmodmap and create a reset term key.
But I doubt SecureCRT is the same.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Bill Hassell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:17:44 GMT

> So what are those characters which locks the terminals and how to unlock it ?

Dennis is correct about HP terminals (hpterm and Reflection for HP). The HP terminals are quite sophisticated and binary files can send escape sequences to the emulator that leave it in an undefined state. However, SecureCRT emulates dumb terminals and they do not have as many features as HP smart terminals. But garbage characters can confuse the emulator so to reset the terminal, select Edit -> Reset.

Re: Copy Pasting on HP-UX terminals

Joseph P. Smith — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:13:00 GMT

> So what are those characters which locks the terminals and how to unlock it ?

Could xon (ctl-s)characters be in the mix of characters in the data stream? Therefore, if you press the ctl-q ("x-off") the terminal will start scrolling.

Just an easy "Perhaps."