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- From: sand@milton.u.washington.edu (Derek Upham)
- Subject: Re: Questions: tip, src install problems, kermit, rz, crypt library
- Message-ID: <sand.712560243@milton>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <Jul.30.19.30.55.1992.29985@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:24:03 GMT
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- pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) writes:
-
- >I managed to get tip to work, but what term type do I tell the Sun I'm
- >using? What are those "last message received XXX times" errors about?
-
- The terminal type is "pc3". The description should be in
- /usr/share/misc/termcap, and most termcaps should have the similar
- "pc". I don't know what's causing the kernel diagnostics, but see
- below...
-
- >Anybody got kermit 5a (?) going? Is the vt10[02] emulation good?
- >Is there a better term program? MS-Kermit is very nice, but I hope to
- >be leaving that behind.
-
- Kermit 5A (with a binary) is included in the etc01 distribution. It
- has no vt10[02] emulation---the plan was, people would use "screen"
- (also included in the etc01 distribution) for emulation. This works,
- mostly, but there is a known bug in "screen" that forces you to hit ^V
- twice to send it. See the thread (started about two days ago,
- something like "sockets bug? ^V as an escape character?") to find more
- information.
-
- >rz gets *lots* of checksum errors with my 9600 modem. The modem is
- >doing error correction, so that I don't think *that's* the problem.
- >Is BSD too slow to keep up? Will a 16550 (?) UART help?
-
- My V.32bis/V.42/V.42bis modem (with a 16550A UART) was dropping
- characters under Linux, due to a problem with the COM driver code.
- Lowering my DTE from 38,400bps to 19,200bps solved the problem.
- 386BSD has even worse problems over dialup lines, and fiddling with
- the DTE doesn't seem to help. I'm pretty sure (thanks to Linux) that
- the problem isn't with the remote machine, the remote modem, or my
- modem. This leaves the 386BSD COM drivers (and this might also
- explain the periodic kernel messages). I suspect there are bugs
- somewhere in the two levels of terminal emulation, as well.
-
- >extract complained that it couldn't find src01.install. Why not?
- >Should I worry? Why isn't extract a script so that I can fix it when
- >it breaks?
-
- Use "extract" for the bin01 stuff. Don't bother with it for anything
- else. Just put all the src01 files in /root, then cd to / and run
-
- cat /root/src01.?? | uncompress | cpio -div
-
- If there's anything wrong with the files (like an extra 0xff character
- on the end of two pieces...) uncompress will barf on the stream.
- Plus, you can taunt this command at will. If you value your sanity,
- don't extact from the /tmp directory, or store any the files there.
- The /etc/rc shell script automatically clears /tmp on boot. You can
- lose eight hours worth of files in an instant.
-
- >I understand why a real crypt wasn't included, but Linux has one.
- >Shouldn't it be easy to plug it in? What will have to be recompiled
- >besides login, su, & passwd? (crypt, I guess:-)
-
- Chris Demetriou (sp?) posted something about encrypted passwords a
- while back. I'm sure someone has it saved online.
-
- >Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator pfaffman@pilot.njin.net
- >Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave.
- >Englewood, NJ 07631-0489 201-569-9500
- --
- Derek Lynn Upham University of Washington
- sand@u.washington.edu University Computing Services Operations
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