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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
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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"
 
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