This only happens when I am in emacs. I have a copy of mince, which is emacs-like. I am able to use Control-G. I can press Control-G at the terminal and hear the bell.
I am using Emacs 22.3.1 and the Control-G command will not work to cancel. I took my init.el file out of the mix and it stills does not work. I am not sure when I upgraded from 20.4 to...