Sub-shell (ctrl-o) behavior

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Sun May 22 00:37:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:26 +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, GiveMeFish Lists wrote:
> 
> > Under cygwin and when I telnet to a FreeBSD server, I ctrl-o and can
> > only see the results of the previous command.  I can't, for example,
> > type in another command.  As soon as I enter another keystroe, I am
> > immediately returned to the MC interface.
> 
> The subshell feature is disabled by default on Cygwin since it leaves
> stale shell processes.

And on FreeBSD you are probably using an unsupported shell.  Please run
"man mc" and look for "subshell support".

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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