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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Information Help Desk <info@adn.edu.ph>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: double <CR>
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960731203211.264H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960731185251.7622A-100000@sili.adn.edu.ph>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Information Help Desk wrote:

> 	I am using a server running freebsd-snap. The server connects a 
> local area network. It connects 9 smart terminals (PC's). After logging 
> in successfully, I notice that whenever I press carriage-return, it ends 
> up doing *two* carriage-returns. In short, if I press the <return> key, 
> it's like I pressed the key twice. There is nothing wrong with the 
> keyboard I use. The keys does'nt stick.

This may be a misconfiguration of either the terminal type or your PC
terminal software.  PCs use a CR/LF pair that UNIX may interpret as two
carriage returns that for some reason either the FreeBSD box or the PCs
aren't filtering down to the standard newline (which ever it is).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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