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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Modem problems Date: 01 May 1994 01:43:19 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94May1024219@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <2poe8c$c4q@dmsoproto.ida.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: Dean Thomas's message of 28 Apr 1994 13:38:20 GMT In article <2poe8c$c4q@dmsoproto.ida.org> Dean Thomas <dcthomas@ida.org> writes: login prompt or any other information on the screen. If I use the Kermit escape sequence to jump back to the Kermit command line, and issue the command "connect", approx. a dozen characters from the remote system will I appear on the screen. If I hit the space bar a few times and then the return key, I will get another dozen or so characters. If I ignore what I see on the screen and type in my You know, this looks to me as if FreeBSD has gone some kind of flow-control going with your modem (or indirectly with the remote system) that DOS either plain doesn't use or somehow at least manages to get more correct. I've certainly never seen anything like it myself. What happens if you disable all flow control after connecting with kermit? Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Friend to mollusks