u character problem on RS/6000

[Steve Roseman]

In article <1991Feb8.165809.16692 at engin.umich.edu>, wross at caen.engin.umich.edu (Wendy Ross) writes:
> Has anyone else noticed a very bizarre problem that seems to
> come up about every three months with the "u" character?
>  
> For example, when the "u" is typed, it appears on the line,
> but is then stripped before interpreted.
> su
> s: command not found (or something like that).
> cd /usr
> /sr is not found either.
> However, cd /*sr does work.
>  
>.....
>  
> Has *anybody* else noticed this problem?  Am I the only one
> experiencing this weirdness?
>  
> Thanks for any suggestions, consolation, or messages just plain
> saying "you're weird, you have weird machines; no-one else has
> ever seen, heard of, or dreamt of this one before!"
>  
> Wendy Ross                   wross at caen.engin.umich.edu
> Computer Aided Engineering Network
> University of Michigan
>  
> <No this is not a joke!>


I ran into this a few months ago, and it was due to an "stty quit undefined"
command within an installation or startup script.  (It has been a while, so
it may have been erase, or some other stty keyword, but you get the idea.)  
Anyway, this defined the specified control character to be "u".  I agree,
it was "VERY" frustrating, and took quite a while to deduce.

So, check your scripts.

Steve

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Steve Roseman
Lehigh University Computing Center
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