gee, that's strangely similar to the old (pre iX) MPE commands, eh?

Thanks, all.

Tracy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atwood, Tim (DVM) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:36 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: shell functionality
>
>
> esc: (that is escape  then a colon - not semi-colon so on
> most keyboards you
> must shift up).
>
> esc; (escape semi-colon) turns echo off.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 11:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] shell functionality
>
>
> OK, so I'm tooling along in the shell, and I type something like
> shell/iX>man ls
>
> after which I get a page of man text.  If I hit the spacebar,
> I get the next
> page.  If I hit control-Y, the man page is terminated, but
> echo is left
> turned off, resulting in something like...
> shell/iX>
>                   shell/iX>
>                             shell/iX>
>                                       shell/iX>
>                                                 shell/iX>
>                                                           shell/iX>
>
> how do I turn echo back on from inside the shell?  (outside,
> :SET ECHO=ON
> works just great).
>
> K Tracy Pierce
> Systems Programmer
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