"@" symbol is not printing

[sreejith_4]

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

[bhavin asokan]

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,

[Sunil Sharma_1]

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

Sunil

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

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.

[sreejith_4]

Hi Matti,

It is working now. Thanks a lot

Sreejith M