From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 23 17:39:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA10503 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tolstoy.mpd.ca (wlloyd.HIP.CAM.ORG [199.84.42.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10490 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plato (plato.mpd.ca [206.123.11.34]) by tolstoy.mpd.ca (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id UAA08218; Thu, 23 May 1996 20:45:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31A5048A.1CD7@mpd.ca> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:36:26 -0400 From: Bill Lloyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Smith CC: Charles Owens , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stty settings (I think) and tip References: <199605231449.AAA09194@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > > Charles Owens stands accused of saying: > > > > I tried posting the following to -questions, but got no takers, so I > > thought I'd try here. > > > > Surely _somebody_ uses tip to connect between two FreeBSD boxes! I do. It works. But it can be frusterating. > > Nope. I use 'cu'. 'cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cuaa0' and then dial the > modem by hand. Works for me... > > > Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu > > > I've observed similar (but much less debilitating) behavior over telnet > > connections. Specificly, if I telnet into another FreeBSD box and run > > pkg_manage, I must use ^J in place of ENTER. And, if I run pine, ^O > > (suspend new message) doesn't work at all. > If you are having ctrl-j type problems, it probably means that the parity is wrong. Just because stty -f /dev/cuaa0 tells you its n81 doesn't seem to effect tip. I have to use pa=none in /etc/remote. Add it to the end of the line entry that you need. see man remote for more info. tip cuaa0 and dial modem by hand. Works for me. > I think you have your tty settings totally toasted. Do you do anything at > all strange in your shell startup? What are you logging in _from_? > > > Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu William Lloyd (wlloyd@mpd.ca)