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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Problems with NetBSD-0.9/XFree86-2.0
Date: 8 Feb 94 15:58:49 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <MIKE.LONG.94Feb7173040@cthulhu.analog.com> Mike.Long@analog.com (Michael W. Long) writes:

>In article <2j3r5t$34t@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer) writes:

>>	1.  com0 occasionally hangs kermit/tip in a state that kill -9
>>	    will not remove them (process state SE+).

>I've had this happen to me.  The com driver is sensitive to XOFF (^S)
>even when it is told to use RTS/CTS flow control (SET FLOW RTS/CTS in
>kermit).  If you unprefix ^S and download a binary that contains a ^S,
>the serial port hangs consistently.  This bug still exists in
>NetBSD-current as of 1/24/94.
>--
>Mike Long                                         Mike.Long@Analog.com

I've never experienced this.  Does the *serial port* (not the program)
know that it's supposed to be ignoring xon/xoff?  Try doing a "stty -f
/dev/tty00 -ixon -ixoff crtscts" before entering kermit (assuming
you're using tty00).


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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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