COPY AND PASTE HANGUP

[Brett Penza]

When using a copy-paste procedure (ctl-c,ctl-v) in an application (AVANTE) on HP9000 (HP 11.00), the user terminal becomes locked up.
I remember fixing this by adding a few keystrokes to a .profile file in UNIX.
However, now it has happened again.
I seem to remember that by adding a keyword to a line in the .profile, this problem went away. But I can't remember what that was. Hopefully someone out there has a clue what I'm talking about here. Thanks.
-bdp

[MarkSyder]

Hi Brett.

I know nothing about Avante, but am puzzled by your use of CTRL c and CTRL v. This is the Microsoft way of copying and pasting: in Unix, CTRL c stops a command from running.

Does CTRL c definitely have a different function in Avante from that it has in other unix apps? May be worth checking the Avante instructions.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Victor Fridyev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Mark is right: CTRL-C usually interrupt foreground processes. If AVANTE requires this sequence exactly, you can update the sequence with, e.g. stty intr ^F

HTH

[Brett Penza]

Thanks for responses.
The way it works specifically is:
In a text window in AVANTE, you press
Ctl-W
That makes the field a full text window.
Then you can use Ctl-C to copy highlighted text, then Ctl-V to paste it.
Yes, it is just like the Windows (I guess that is why Epicor wrote it like this)
Anyway, the Comment from Victor about stty
is ringing a bell. Because the fix for this (though I can't remember the exact syntax, did include the stty)
Please, humour a novice, and tell me what this stty stuff is all about. If you have the time to spare of course, Thanks.

[Mark Grant]

Bret,

"stty" sets the atributes of the terminal you are using. "stty -a" will show you your current setting. The interesting one for you in this case will have been the "intr = ^C". "intr" stands for "interupt" and so this entry shows that to do an interupt on your terminal, you need to press ^C (CNTRL C). To change it, you would just enter "stty intr "

Many of the entries don't make too much sense if you are running in a virtual terminal like "xterm". Other examples are "stty -erase ^H" will set the backspace character to ^H and "stty onlcr" stands for "on new line carriage return". This means that when the system issues a new line, the tty driver will also issue a "carriage return". That one is often needed on serially attached line printers to stop "staircase" effect.

stty is fun but you can read more of it with "man stty".

[MarkSyder]

stty is fun? Mark, you need a holiday ;-)

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)