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From: sandy@halcyon.halcyon.com (Sandy Fifer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: vi (elvis) and more dont work on com ports
Date: 10 Mar 1994 06:13:16 GMT
Organization: A World of Information at Your Fingertips
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References: <2ljo9e$2qv@news.iastate.edu> <1994Mar9.081306.505@news.csuohio.edu>
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In article <1994Mar9.081306.505@news.csuohio.edu>, Steve Ratliff
<stever@csuohio.edu> wrote:
> Vi and more usually end up setting the line to 7E1. You can
> check this by doing a stty -f /dev/com1. The quick and dirty solution
> is to set your modem/terminal at 7E1. The more involved solution is
> to modify /etc/gettytab using :np and to modify ttydefaults.h and
> possibly other files to make 8N1 the default. Then recompile.
These solutions will probably work, but there's a simpler solution:
just put
stty cs8 -parenb
in your .profile (or .login). I've added it to our system-wide
/etc/csh.login and /etc/profile files, and nobody's having this problem
anymore.
Sandy Fifer