"M.K.Pai" wrote: > > Guys, > > I am facing a rather strange problem. > > I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt. > > I am able to get M by > perl -e 'print chr(77);' > > I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here. > But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M. > > Most important, other users on this system, like root and all > others, are having no problems at all > > Please help.
Do you have in .bash_profile, .bashrc, .profile, or any of those other dotfiles, or in any script they call a `stty ...` line that sets M to be a control character of some kind? Maybe some editing mangled it. Maybe a ^ was left out. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.