From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 07:25:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA29981 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (root@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29965 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 07:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #7) id m0vCnxR-000NzbC; Mon, 14 Oct 96 10:25 EDT Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vCnxQ-0006F6C; Mon, 14 Oct 96 10:25 EDT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:10:56 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: minicom/bash Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk BSD'ers, I've spent a considerable amount of time now on this issue regarding minicom, and with the direction that several responders put me on (notably Daniel O'Brien). I still don't know precisely where, or why, this has the affect it does, but here's what I've learned about this one. Those that deal with the various shells may be interested in this problem. First of all, I am back to using my preferred shell (bash), and successfully too! Minicom does work properly, if I do everything right! What that means is this: the rxvt MUST be invoked without the '-ls' option, and apparently this is due to the default shell being bash (which results in the TERM variable being set to 'cons25') when logging in. I have to look into it, but I suspect launching the shell from the fvwm95 popup uses the '-ls' and thats why when I open either an 'xterm' or 'rxvt' neither works properly (if I use ANY shell except 'csh'). If I launch the shell from an xterm without the '-ls' (when using bash) and then run minicom it works fine (but only if its an 'rxvt'--'xterm' still does not work, which is the same behaviour seen on Linux)! Note that this results in the TERM for that shell being set to 'xterm'. This was the secret to the problem that Daniel suggested may be the source of the problem, and as it turns out, he was right on! Thanks Daniel for setting me on this path! Paul ---------------------------------- E-Mail: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Date: 10/14/96 Time: 14:10:56 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------