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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwc.urc.tue.nl!wmbfmk From: wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [netbsd 0.9] terminal on com ports Date: 14 Oct 1993 15:10:44 +0100 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <wmbfmk.750607495@rwc.urc.tue.nl> References: <2956kr$bm5@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Oct13.121947.19474@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rwc.urc.tue.nl b6ps@elara.sun.csd.unb.ca (Peter Howlett) writes: >|> -When I try to launch vi, jove, emacs, or anything else, the >|> whole thing blitzes out and I have to reboot the computer >|> to get it back. >This was a question of mine earlier this month, which some nice people told >me was because getty resets the line settings on the com port to cs7 and >parenb. (7 data bits and even parity.) This seems to happen no matter what >is in the gettytab file. All I did was put an stty in my .login file and >everything is cool now. > stty cs8 -parenb I had the same problem with a dialup line, and this seems to fix it. But, I have 'mesg y' and 'biff y' in my .login and when they are executed they give a message that I can't write to com0, but in my /etc/ttys I specify tty00, so I should be using /dev/tty00 for the connection. (BTW com0 is a link to tty00) As a result of this, I think, I can also not see myself with 'w' when I'm logged in via the dialup. It seems like there's something structurally wrong, or not? Marc van Kempen.