Control Characters and stty
Most HP-UX users have Control-D configured as the end-of-file character and Control-C as the interrupt character. If you use Robelle-style modify, you must reassign Control-D to a different control character. If you are a former MPE user, you may wish to assign Control-Y as your interrupt character. A standard shell configuration file (.profile for Bourne and Korn shells and .login for the C shell) usually contains a line like:
stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D" swtch "^Z"To change both the end-of-file and interrupt character, you should change the "intr" and "eof" control keys as follows:
stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^Y" eof "^E" swtch "^Z"Note that the end-of-file signal is required by many programs. Many introductory books on UNIX assume that Control-D generates an end-of-file. You have to remember to now use Control-E (at least Control-E is easy to remember since end-of-file starts with the letter "E").