no echo on shell

[Paul Fox]

 > /scratch #  <----- I typed the stty command here (but not echoed back by the
 > shell)
 > speed 9600 baud;
 > intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
 > eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
 > werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
 > -brkint ixoff -imaxbel
 > -icanon -echo
           ^^^^^
this is the problem.  someone is turning off echo, and it's not getting
turned back on.  are you perhaps killing off a program (e.g., using ^C),
that might have disabled character echo?  such a program _should_ catch
the interrupt signal, in order to restore the tty the way it found it,
but many do not.

in the meantime, "stty echo" will reenable echo.  a good command
to use is "stty sane", which restores most (all?) of the default
tty settings.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com