On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:

> Well then, would you mind trying "stty -af /dev/tty00" to see if
> there's an option "mdmbuf"?  If so, what happens if you turn it off?
> (by "stty -f /dev/tty00 -mdmbuf")

What finally did the trick was

stty -f /dev/tty00 clocal

which was (I believe) suggested by Bill.  Thanks to both of you for
helping me figure this one out!

Brian