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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 8-bit stuff Message-ID: <C4ssCv.FIr@veda.is> Date: 1 Apr 93 09:14:54 GMT Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 28 Thanks to people who sent me comments about upgrading the console to 8-bit characters, etc. There are evidently quite a few changes necessary to get 8-bit chars useable from a network login. Does anyone have any pointers for me? Here are the symptoms: after logging in from an 8-bit vt220 terminal with telnet and setting 'stty -istrip' the following weirdnesses occur... Any occurrences of top-bit-set characters encountered in the input stream are echoed normally from the 386bsd host as 8-bit characters as they are being typed but each such character suppresses 1 line of output from the host and the 8-bit character mysteriously disappears. For example (digits here represent 8-bit characters): $ echo foo0bar1junk2aargh foobarjunkaargh $ $ $ $ i.e. the Return key has to be hit 3 times more before any output appears and the output has discarded all top-bit-set characters. What is going on here, and where does the problem lie? -- Adam David (adam@veda.is)