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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ralphs
- From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
- Subject: Re: Shell locks up in 1.65
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.200155.4401@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <F5qLuB1w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:01:55 GMT
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- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
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- >grab stuff he needs. Once in a great while, Waffle would lock up when
- >he or I would shell to DOS.
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- >Repeatable symptom: The lockup occurs in the middle of typing a
- >command, and is usually accompanied by a garbage character or two.
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- >Anyone have any ideas? I get the feeling that it might be ANSI-related,
- >but why didn't things lock up before the new disc?
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- IDE drive? You might trying throwing in a wait state to see if
- that clears it. Disk cache? Try enabling staged writes. As
- usual, one change at a time. Take out ANSI!
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- >On a related note, has anyone ever seen source for CTTY or its
- >equivalent? I think it's time to explore writing a FOSSIL-aware CTTY
- >command.
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- Poke around for GATEWAY, a CTTY-replacement that's fossil-aware.
- Also, DOORWAY can help as a DOS gateway.
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