William F. Acker wrote: > The second is a program that doesn't know what to do with the > arrow keys. Bash, Vim, Alpine, Mutt are all fine. Cat and ED > are not. Why this is so is a mystery. I have a theory; bash, vim, alpine, mutt, slrn read /dev/tty, but cat and ed read their stdin. > A way around this is to ssh to localhost. Excellent hack, well spotted. Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Was der Meister nicht kann, verm?cht es der Knabe, h?tt er ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2
