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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: pcomm-2.0.1 problem on Netbsd 0.9 Message-ID: <1993Oct26.231449.3448@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <2ajpvi$c60@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 23:14:49 GMT Lines: 26 Po-Jung Lin (pojung@carson.u.washington.edu) wrote: : Hi, : Did anyone have experience using pcomm on netbsd-0.9 ? I just download : and compile it. It seems OK before making connection. I can hear the modem : dialing and make connection with remote host. But after connection, the screen : screws up. I can inly saw garbage on the screen. Is this termcap problem or : whatever? Thanks in advance. : : -pojung I've used pcomm with 386bsd and with FreeBSD. It does have some problems with its use of curses and screen redraws but I don't think this is your problem. I had garbage shown on the screen as well. You need to play around with your modem init sequences and line settings from within pcomm and maybe power cycle your modem and check that your cables are seated properly. You might also be stuck using 7E1 only to get good connections. I did get it to connect fairly well though I would still occasionally get a bad connection and garbage on the screen. If that happened, I would hang up and try again. My recommedation, if you have Xwindows running, is for you to get Seyon. It compiles pretty much out of the box and works far better and is much nicer than pcomm will ever be. I am using it right now to type this reply :) steve