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From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: problems with tip
Message-ID: <C4nFE6.1M2@agora.rain.com>
Date: 29 Mar 93 11:46:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: agora.C4nFE6.1M2
References: <1oujs7INN95t@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <1p51dhINNt8n@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <1993Mar29.074653.27148@gmd.de> <C4n61n.KrM@ns1.nodak.edu>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes:

>veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:

>)I wonder why
>)stty cs8 </dev/com2
>)shouldn't work.

>For some reason when I do this some settings do not stay set.  :-/
>Maybe I missed something somewhere.  Oh well, I muddle through.

The curses package (I think thats where it is) resets the port to
tty_def every time it is used by a program.  Basically until someone
fixes all the places that keeps reseting things to the tty_def values
you are stuck with 7e1, or you can go redefine them and rebuild everything!

>:-)
>-- 
>Daniel Ortmann             NDSU Electrical Engineering
>ortmann@plains.nodak.edu   Fargo, North Dakota
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