NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/unix/bsd/8667

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From: [e-mail] (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Help!  I can't change baudrate on /dev/com1 with stty!
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Date: 9 Nov 92 01:14:27 GMT
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Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
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Well, I've started my install, this weekend.  Everything went swimmingly
with the disks, putting a 201 MB partition on my WD IDE drive (along with
a 1 MB DOS partition), and installing from the dist.fs diskette.  But.

The rest of the distribution is sitting on my Sun at work, and the only
feasible way to get it home is via modem.  Fine, the installation notes
cover this contingency.  I do the tip /dev/com1, suspend it, and try to
change the speed with stty.  No joy.  The speed is stubbornly stuck at
9600, and I can't change it to talk to my modem.

I look in the buglist, and lo and behold, bug PROG005 says "The stock stty
in the bin01 distribution is unable to set the baud rate correctly."  I can
only assume that the version in dist.fs has the same problem.  The recommended
solution is a recompile, but I just can't get there from here.  I tried the
stty on the floppy and the stty on cgd's new-bootables dist.fs, from agate.
Neither worked even slightly.

So does anyone have a working stty executable they would be willing to make
available for anonymous ftp?  (Or just uuencode it and mail it to me, that
would work as well.)  I'm stuck until I get this fixed.

Thanks in advance, whoever you are that bails me out.  Email responses
preferred, obviously.
--
Frank Mayhar  [e-mail]
              Tandem Computers, Inc.  Micro Products Division
              14231 Tandem Blvd., Austin, TX  78728    Phone:  [phone]