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From: blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: More causes garbage on dialin
Date: 05 Feb 1994 00:40:00 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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References: <2hnoc9$b4f@crl2.crl.com> <2i4gd4$hvc@cleese.apana.org.au>
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In-reply-to: db@diana.ocunix.on.ca's message of Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:06:16 GMT

>>>>> On Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:06:16 GMT, db@diana.ocunix.on.ca (Diane Bruce) said:

Diane> In article <hastyCKB3rL.MBq@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <2i4gd4$hvc@cleese.apana.org.au> newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes:
>>In article <2hnoc9$b4f@crl2.crl.com> rmc@crl.com (Jeff Phillips) writes:
>>>When we dial into our NETBSD host and use more, the output gets all 

Diane>   I first noticed this problem with 'man' under NETBSD 0.9 a month or so
Diane> ago. I traced it to 'more' messing up (which of course, 'man' uses.)
Diane> 'more' messed up the stty settings. I haven't been able to look at this
Diane> and track the problem down completely due to time constraints.

Diane>  To confirm this is your problem, try a shell sequence such as:

Diane> stty -a > before_stty_settings;more shortfile;stty -a > after_stty_settings

Actually, it's more than more :-) that does this.  On my NetBSD 0.9
system it seems like anything that uses cbreak (or maybe raw) tty
stuff breaks it.  In my case the line gets set to 7bits no parity,
my normal operation is 7 bits, even parity.  I posted the problem to
the netbsd-bugs mailing list, silence was the stern reply.

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Brett Lymn