On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:37:02PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:34:17 +0100
> > From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
> > To: Stephen M Jones <smj@cirr.com>
> > Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: breaking to SRM via a terminal server.
> > 
> > On 2002.01.13 21:40 Stephen M Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't seem to be able to break back to SRM.  Any suggestions or
> > > thoughts?  I'm using 'send brk' 
> > Sending break is not supported on all terminal servers. I know that the
> > DECserver 300 does not support it too. I have two terminal servers from
> > Prime, that support it. A work around is to set the terminal server
> > temporarily to a very low baud rate (300 or so) and send some chars...
> 
> Does the serial console actually respond to BREAK or is that a Sun or
> PDP-11 phenomenon?  I thought that the equivalent stimulus for Alpha
> and Vax was <ctrl>P.

Sun phenomenon. Together with the 'lets halt when we switch of the
terminal' ;-)

^P was it for VAX. I don't think Alphas are very sensitive to ^P
or whatever. Unless one puts DDB in the kernel of course

Wilko

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