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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!news.bbn.com!hsdndev!nmr-z!andy From: andy@dbe.mgh.harvard.edu (Andrew Wieckiewicz) Subject: Dial-in using 8,N,1 How? Message-ID: <andy.748545008@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (User for USENET news postings) Nntp-Posting-Host: abu.mgh.harvard.edu Organization: Mass General Hospital Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 17:10:08 GMT Lines: 27 Hello all. Can anyone shed sime light on the problem im having in setting up my dial-up line on a 386bsd 0.2.4 to be configured for 8 data bits, no parity and 1 stop bit (8,N,1)? The modem works fine, I have it set up for hardware handshaking. The port is set up "-clocal", and "cs8". The gettytab entry calls for "np" - no parity. What is happening (on occasion it is fine) is that when I get a login prompt, I type in a valid username, after which I get a garbled up phrase "Password". The terminal reset itself to 7,E,1 after I typed the username in. What gives? Does 'login' set up terminal characteristics, and does it do that regardless of pre-set parameters via gettytab?. For a bigger discussion, what would the effect of changing the system default from 7,E,1 to 8,N,1 be? I have no reason not to stick with the de-facto standard of (seems-like) all Unix systems of 7,E,1 except for ease of use for a user which is using a modem and dials up all other systems /BBS systems at 8,N,1 Any comments would be appreciated. -- | Andrew Wieckiewicz | andy@dbe.mgh.harvard.edu | Massachusetts General Hospital