On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, HerbalGypsy/justbobthebard wrote:

> Dave's and Andy's responses should be your culprit, unless you are
> running
> a real long cable - sometimes that can do it too but that should be more
> consistent than intermittent.
> I was really tempted to say that this was caused by the alpha censoring
> the
> output but, I figured a dumb response like that would not help, hope it
> makes ya smile!
> bob

:-) 

Seriously though, the VT220 only does software (XON/XOFF) flow control.
If you keep pumping bits at it after it sends a few XOFF's, it will start
to display garbage characters (with lots of reverse ?'s)

.. maybe an 'xo' somewhere in your termcap(5) file will help...

> Peter Joules wrote:
> > 
> > Since I have hooked up a VT220 instead of my VT320 I have a strange
> > problem, I would like some advice as to whether this is related to the
> > terminal setup or to NetBSD.
> > 
> > The display gets corrupted by reversed question marks at random points
> > in the text.  This happens both during the boot process and during
> > normal use.  The terminal is set up as English with a North American
> > keyboard.  The comms set up is correct for the MicroVAX 3100 to which it
> > is attached.
> > --
> > Regards
> > Pete
> 

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