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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!mcshub!cebnet!mike From: mike@CEB.McMaster.CA (Mike Anderson) Subject: Re: vi (elvis) and more dont work on com ports Message-ID: <1994Mar8.191449.5104@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Keywords: tty01 vi more ioctl termio TCSETS Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: cebnet.ceb.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 19:14:49 GMT Lines: 12 I have found that in netBSD 0.9 the more and vi programs call an ioctl to set modes on the tty and this results in the serial lines going into some useless mode where the same nonesense is echoed no-matter what is typed in. This problem only occurs on the tty (COM1 COM2) serial ports, not on the PCs own console. Does anyone know about or experienced this problem or know of a fix? mike anderson mike@cebnet.ceb.mcmaster.ca