topic Re: "@" symbol is not printing in Operating System - HP-UX

"@" symbol is not printing

sreejith_4 — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:56:21 GMT

Hi,

When i telnet to one of my server , i am not able to type "@" symbol. It is not printing anything even in vi editor also. This is working in other servers. I have the same .cshrc files for both the systems

Any idea why is it happening ?

Thanks
Sreejith M

Re: "@" symbol is not printing

bhavin asokan — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:02:52 GMT

hi,
check the contents of /etc/kbdlang

#more /etc/kbdlang

it should be

PS2_DIN_US_English

or

USB_PS2_DIN_US_English

or

Not_Applicable

regds,

Re: "@" symbol is not printing

Sunil Sharma_1 — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:04:12 GMT

check the termical setting using stty comamnd and see if @ defined for some other function.

Sunil

Re: "@" symbol is not printing

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:16:15 GMT

You have not defined @ to be used on shell. Try to export them with stty command as,

stty eol "^@"

Put that in your shell default profile there.

HTH.

Re: "@" symbol is not printing

Matti_Kurkela — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:20:45 GMT

Your 'stty' settings are probably at HP-UX factory defaults. The @ symbol is the factory default for 'kill' character: typing it will actually erase the entire line on most shells.

To correct this, you mus set the kill character to something else. I use ^U (control-U) for that:
stty kill ^U

If this helps, check the other stty settings too: there are other default settings that may not make sense in a modern environment, like the default terminal speed of 300 bps.
(Anything slower than 9600 makes some editors deliberately slow down their output.)

Where are you telnetting from? The telnet client on Unix host should be able to report the stty settings of the client host to the server host, so the session on the server host can be set up correctly. However, some Windows telnet clients might not do this correctly.

The terminal type setting (environment variable TERM on unix hosts) might also be affecting this. If you're using a Windows telnet client, find out what terminal type it is reporting to the server.

Re: "@" symbol is not printing

sreejith_4 — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:25:29 GMT

Hi Matti,

It is working now. Thanks a lot

Sreejith M