On 9 Sep 2007, at 21:55, David Cantrell wrote: > Can anyone think of a reason why, when I ssh to a Solaris machine, C-c > doesn't interrupt? It's Solaris, the 1980s theme operating system, that's generally reason enough. What do you get if you do "od" and then type ^C ^D ? Does ^\ do anything useful? (Probably not if ^C doesn't work.)