On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Beesley, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> <escape> followed by :q! doesn't work. I can't find anything that does. > Obviously vi is unique (in many ways ...) > I don't think you can IPL CMS if you've already booted z/Linux. > I was thinking another user in CMS, not IPL'ing CMS in the same virtual machine. > > I may have found someone who has SSH access and am waiting for them to try > and kill my vi process. > But it would be useful to know how to get out of this via z/VM for future > occasions! > I agree, this is a very interesting phenomenon which must somehow have to do with the 3270 session you're in. I really which that I had access to a z/Linux system under z/VM to mess around with it. And it makes me wonder why vi doesn't simply refuse to run in a 3270 environment. I guess it's because the author never considered a terminal environment which would be so completely different and "hostile". Personally, I would possibly look at creating a new "vi" shell wrapper which checks (how?) for the 3270 environment and refuses to invoke vi in that environment. > > Regards and thanks > Paul > > -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
