Looks like “-” is not_optoinal but mandatory for stty settings > man stty | grep icrnl “ [-]icrnl translate carriage return to newline” effects some applications using tty described on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7812142/how-to-toggle-cr-lf-in-gnu-screen in my case problems with vi(elvis) in ssh session to Slackware 14.2 -------------------------------- before correction ( “icrnl” without “-” => problem exists ) # stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 43; columns 101; line = 0; ***-istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel *** -------------------------------------------- after ‘stty -icrnl’ ( vi works without the problem ) # stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 43; columns 101; line = 0; *** -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel ***
WBR Vladimir