NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/unix/bsd/5045

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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
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Date: Thu,  3 Sep 1992 08:17:58 -0400
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <[e-mail]>
Subject: com port and more
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I just installed 386bsd last night.  Anyway, here are a few of my
questions that have popped up early:
  1) I have a terminal on com1 (telix running vt100), and com2 (z29 in
ansi mode).  On the PC running telix, whenever I run an application that
uses curses (vi) it locks the terminal.  If I drop dtr 4 times I will
eventully kill vi and get a prompt back, but I was wondering what could
be wrong here.  The terminal is set up as std.9600 in /etc/ttys.
According to telix I am at 9600,e,7,1,xon/xoff,no cts/rts though.  I
haven't tried this with another terminal package yet.

  2) I copied screen from wuarchive in
/mirrors/386bsd/386bsd-0.1/filesystem/usr/othersrc/screen-3.2/bin/screen
(or something like that).  Anyway, it seems to work fine, but locks on
both terminals (note that the terminal on com2 does work fine for
everything else).  I haven't gotten around to compiling screen myself,
but I thought that the pre-compiled one should work.

  3) How do I add swap space.  I looked in the faq, but it seemed to be
talking about swap space on a second drive.  I have left some free
(non-partitioned) space on my harddrive to make as swap, just need to
know how to go about setting it up.

Overall I am very impressed with the product.  Much fuller then linux,
and so far it seems to be much less buggy than mach (or at least less
weird).

alex