From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 02:26:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05144 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05132 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA00820; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:26:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 02:26:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jeff Roberts cc: FreeBSD questions list Subject: Re: repeated characters over serial connection? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > Hello, again! =) > > Recently (and frighteningly) CKermit 6.0/BSD has started repeating every > (expletive) character I type to the remote host. This is the same > behavior (in Kermit and other serial programs) that I observed in SCO, so > it's not strictly a Kermit problem (and never happens when I use Kermit > on non-UNIX platforms). What confuses is me is why, without > my having changed anything, it just started happening (after a week of > normal behavior). Never happens when I switch back to local view of > file system -- just when I'm viewing the remote system. Someone turned on local echo. :) Probably the ATE modem command and/or tty settings. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major