Answer - ^Z hanging vi

Ken Goldman goldman at ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP
Wed Oct 2 03:40:40 AEST 1985


Thanks to all who helped solve this problem (except for the person who
flamed me for not reading the documentation, as you can see reading
the documentation, which I did, would not help).

Here is the response which actually fixed the problem (I'm running
the Bourne shell):

>Try inserting
	>stty susp undef dsusp undef
>into the default .profile.  What is happening is that the ^Z sends a SIG_SUSP
>signal to the vi, which waits for the C-shell csh(1) to take over.  But if you
>are not using csh....   



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