I tried entering the Insert again with no luck. 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kate Stanton
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 4:35 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] SB Client question

Does it toggle?  In some Windows processes, it does.  Have you tried
just pressing Insert again?

On 8 December 2012 11:25, Lunt, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is a question that has been puzzling me for years and I am 
> finally going to ask if there is help for me. :-)
>
> What happens is I will be typing at real TCL (on HP9000 Unix running 
> SB+
> 5.2) and I will accidentally hit the 'Insert' key that it just to the 
> right of the 'Backspace' key. Well, after I do this my backspace will 
> no longer work. What I see on the screen when I enter the backspace 
> key is the letters to the left are displayed to the right of the 
> cursor preceded by a space. I can enter the replacement character(s) 
> and they will work but when I look at the line to check it the line 
> will always
> have: '*--:' appended to the end of the line. It does not matter what 
> I do after this to try to get back to what was working before. (I do 
> plenty of backspacing so this is not a small problem.) The only thing 
> that works is to logoff and then log back on. This will reset the 
> editor to work correctly again. I have tried hitting the 'Insert' key 
> again, thinking that it would switch back to the original mode, to no
avail.
> Has this happened to anyone else? Or am I the only lucky one with this

> problem? If it has happened to you, do you have another fix besides 
> logging off the system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bruce Lunt
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