> > > 	This causes the output of commands running in /etc/rc such as
> > > 	fsck to output crud until you manage to change your terminal
> > > 	emulation.
> 
> > I assume you've looked into telling your terminal to ignore the parity
> > bit?  i know that all of the terminals i own (and all of the terminal
> > programs i remember using) have that capability...

Yes.  But sometimes you don't want to use that capability.  I need a
eight bit pipe going between my terminal and my computer (8 bits in
for a meta key, 8 bits out for iso8859-1 extended characters).

I don't know what the best solution to this problem is.

	--jtc