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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: vi trashes com port Message-ID: <C8qBnH.27G@veda.is> Date: 16 Jun 93 19:33:00 GMT References: <C8pvMB.n4@veda.is> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 14 One more observation about this problem, I am coping with it now as a temporary solution by making sure I only run vi inside an iScreen session. If I forget to invoke screen immediately after login, the serial line is almost guaranteed to fail soon after starting vi, requiring human intervention at the location where the host is. I see no obvious reason why iScreen prevents this behaviour, except that it provides an extra layer of buffering on the system software level between the terminal and the serial port. Bingo! could it be that the pty is set to 7bit but the tty (com port) remains at 8bit? What is the normal way around this problem without having to set up a seperate machine on the network as a terminal server? -- adam@veda.is