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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!beach.csulb.edu!nic.csu.net!koko.csustan.edu!rat!cindy!satmech Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd tip marks bytes Message-ID: <1992Aug23.050201.26638@ecst.csuchico.edu> From: satmech@ecst.csuchico.edu (satmech) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 05:02:01 GMT Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (no news is good news) References: <1992Aug21.194339.24212@engage.pko.dec.com> Organization: California State University, Chico Nntp-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Lines: 26 In article <1992Aug21.194339.24212@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes: > >After several frustrating days of problems with a terminal server, I discovered >something. > >Tip is setting the high bit of every character, even though I am setting >parity to none. (There seems to be no entry in /etc/remote for character >size; why?) My Ultrix system doesn't do this. Does anyone know anything >about this? > >Thanks > >Eric >-- >/=============================================================================\ >| Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-| >| Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; | >| ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). | >\==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/ > I ran into this same problem myself. Oddly enough, the cut down version of tip on the boot floppy doesn't have this problem so instead of using "/usr/bin/tip com1", try using "/usr/distbin/tip /dev/com1" "