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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: More causes garbage on dialin
Date: 26 Jan 1994 11:48:14 +1030
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au public access UNIX +61-8-3736006
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In article <2hnoc9$b4f@crl2.crl.com> rmc@crl.com (Jeff Phillips) writes:
>When we dial into our NETBSD host and use more, the output gets all
>messed up. Looks like a port over run. the port is locked at 19200 using
>a usr sportster 14400. Any suggestions on where to begin looking?
You haven't said whether you're using 386bsd, FreeBSD or NetBSD.
Early patchlevels of 386bsd had a problem whereby certain programs
would spontaneously change the terminal settings to 8-bit mode, and
others would spontaneously change them back to 7 bit mode. If you
have an early 386bsd patchlevel release, I'd suggest upgrading.
Another thing to look for is flow control: Type "stty crtscts" and
re-start "more" to see if it happens again. It might be that
you're blasting chars at your modem too quickly, and overrunning its
buffer. Note that for this solution to work at all, you need to be
using a modem cable which has all the flow control signal lines
connected -- a 3-wire cable will be utterly useless.
Good luck.
- mark
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I tried an internal modem, newton@cleese.apana.org.au
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