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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!scomm!jan From: jan@filetek.com (Jan Morales) Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] problem with elvis (vi) on serial line Message-ID: <CI5uoB.Gpt@filetek.com> Sender: news@filetek.com Organization: FileTek, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A. Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 03:50:34 GMT Lines: 24 When I use elvis (vi) on a serial line it writes all kinds of apparent garbage on the terminal and I end up having to kill it by hand. This happens both when: - logged in on a directly connected serial dumb terminal, and - in an xterm dialed out of one modem and into another on the same system. Elvis works just fine on the console and in a local xterm. Other than that there's nothing wrong with the session, including tcsh. To make sure that the dumb terminal wasn't acting flaky I logged in on it, from there dialed out on one of the modems to my office, and started vi on the remote host and it worked just fine. It's as though elvis has a hard time just on serial lines but intuitively that doesn't make sense to me. Anyone have any idea what's going on? [486DX33, 16Mb, 4 NS16550 serial ports, no SCSI or network] Thanks, Jan -- Jan Morales Internet: jan@filetek.com FileTek, Inc. UUCP: uunet!fltk!jan Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.