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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!racine.ccs.itd.umich.edu!koosh From: koosh@racine.ccs.itd.umich.edu (David L. Cushard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD questions Date: 5 Apr 1994 08:14:19 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2nr6kr$jc2@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: racine.ccs.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] I have just installed FreeBSD and have a few questions hopefully someone can answer... 1) Whenever the "date" command is used, output looks like this: Tue Apr 4 08:02:45 See zic(8) or link /etc/localtime directly 1994 that "See zic..." part always gets inserted in there and I don't know why...No manual info on anything called "zic" is present. 2) I seem to be having some kind of terminal problem or something...As my erase and carriage return does not always work properly. It works fine just in shell, but when I use tip and cu for my modem and hit the backspace key, I see "^?" instead of erasing the character. It actually does erase the character, as far as the remote systems care, but it's rather annoying to see ^? on my screen instead of an erase. Also, I run an application, a MUD more specifically that accepts connections on port 2222. When I "telnet localhost 2222" I suffer from the same backspace woes described above...However, in this case I am ALSO plagued by the carriage return problem. Every time I hit return, rather than skipping to the next line, I just see "^M"...As in the above case, the MUD does accept the return, just that I am not seeing it properly. I have tried all kinds of stty commands to remedy this, but none work. 3) Related to #2, I'm just curious what "crt" "newcrt" "crterase" stty options actually are. They are not described a bit in the man pages, yet I see this used in the .login supplied for root, and also in the /usr/share/skel dot.login file. As background info, I switched over from NetBSD, so I will most likely understand any help (not a COMPLETE noobie). Like I said, I just recently installed this, so I haven't messed anything up yet so I don't see why I should be having these problems (NetBSD worked ok for me in this respect). Any help via followup and/or email would be greatly appreciated. PS) Oops, left out one. Are there any documents that give examples or step-by-step procedures of how to set up pppd for many different scenarios? And part two of this one...I briefly tried toying with pppd, and when I did I got a message that said something like "Operation not supported by device" and it hung up the modem. Did I just do something incorrect (as I said, I was just toying) or does this mean that the kernel doesn't have ppp options supported during the compile? (It's stock GENERICAH)