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- Subject: Re: 386bsd tip marks bytes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.050201.26638@ecst.csuchico.edu>
- From: satmech@ecst.csuchico.edu (satmech)
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 05:02:01 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug21.194339.24212@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Aug21.194339.24212@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
- >
- >After several frustrating days of problems with a terminal server, I discovered
- >something.
- >
- >Tip is setting the high bit of every character, even though I am setting
- >parity to none. (There seems to be no entry in /etc/remote for character
- >size; why?) My Ultrix system doesn't do this. Does anyone know anything
- >about this?
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >Eric
- >--
- >/=============================================================================\
- >| Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-|
- >| Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; |
- >| ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). |
- >\==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/
- >
-
- I ran into this same problem myself. Oddly enough, the cut down version
- of tip on the boot floppy doesn't have this problem so instead of using
- "/usr/bin/tip com1", try using "/usr/distbin/tip /dev/com1"
-
- "
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