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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Message-ID: <sedU9q600WAtMJ3WVW@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:17:58 -0400 From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: com port and more Lines: 28 I just installed 386bsd last night. Anyway, here are a few of my questions that have popped up early: 1) I have a terminal on com1 (telix running vt100), and com2 (z29 in ansi mode). On the PC running telix, whenever I run an application that uses curses (vi) it locks the terminal. If I drop dtr 4 times I will eventully kill vi and get a prompt back, but I was wondering what could be wrong here. The terminal is set up as std.9600 in /etc/ttys. According to telix I am at 9600,e,7,1,xon/xoff,no cts/rts though. I haven't tried this with another terminal package yet. 2) I copied screen from wuarchive in /mirrors/386bsd/386bsd-0.1/filesystem/usr/othersrc/screen-3.2/bin/screen (or something like that). Anyway, it seems to work fine, but locks on both terminals (note that the terminal on com2 does work fine for everything else). I haven't gotten around to compiling screen myself, but I thought that the pre-compiled one should work. 3) How do I add swap space. I looked in the faq, but it seemed to be talking about swap space on a second drive. I have left some free (non-partitioned) space on my harddrive to make as swap, just need to know how to go about setting it up. Overall I am very impressed with the product. Much fuller then linux, and so far it seems to be much less buggy than mach (or at least less weird). alex