On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:05:05AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> You have no handshaking at all! Try turning on "ixon ixany". Also, you
> can set the VT (420 -- not sure about the differences) to send an XOFF
> for every 64 characters received, every 128, or none at all. In order
> for "ixon" to have any effect, you'll need to set "XOFF at {64,128}".

I set ixon/ixany, and I have XOFF set in the terminal firmware to 64.

Still no joy.

> That doesn't look right. You should have "rows" and "columns" set, at
> least. Here's what I get with my vt420, termcap entry "vt420", with a
> custom gettyab entry (further below), VT set to XOFF at 128, 8 bits no
> parity, vt100 mode. (I also have terminal ID set to send "VT102".)

Well, I sometimes do have rows and columns. That's not the problem
though. Still no joy.

> speed 19200 baud; 24 rows; 80 columns;
> lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe echok echoke -echonl echoctl
> 	-echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho -pendin -nokerninfo
> 	-extproc
> iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel -ignbrk
> 	brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk
> oflags: opost onlcr -ocrnl oxtabs onocr onlret
> cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd -hupcl clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf
> 	-cdtrcts
> cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
> 	eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V;
> 	min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = <undef>;
> 	stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;

Interesting that you have so many differences from mine. Did you
do anything to change your stty settings or mess with the terminal
definition in /etc/gettytab?

If you are doing nothing special to your system, then why is mine
booting up so different?

Thanks for the info, I'll play around a bit more.  I set the 
newline/carriage return controls I thought should be right
but they seem to have no effect.

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