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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: gettytab settings?
Date: 10 Mar 1996 14:13:03 GMT
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wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford) writes:
> 
> I've just recently installed FreeBSD 2.01.  I've noticed that when I dial
> into the machine remotely that 'vi' and 'tin' don't work very well at all.
> Even a long listing over the dialup is screwed up.

You need to turn on hardware flowcontrol (CTS/RTS) on both, your
computer and modem.  For FreeBSD, see /etc/rc.serial.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)