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From: samit@demon.siemens.com (Ben Samit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: vt100 woes
Summary: vt100 ok, rlogin broke ???
Keywords: vt100, rlogin, broken, problems
Message-ID: <11406@siemens.siemens.com>
Date: 6 Jul 89 16:45:11 GMT
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Reply-To: samit@demon.UUCP (Ben Samit)
Organization: Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories
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Scenario:
Like most others, I have been having serious problems with
rlogin and the vt100 emulator under sr10.1 .  I have an open call to the
response center but have seen little results.  So I ftp'd screen2 from
an archive site.  It wouldn't compile due to a C-compiler feature.  I
changed the order of some include files.  It compiled but would not run.
I ftp'd the original screen (version 1), played with the order of the
include files.  It compiled and ran.  It also hung just as badly as the
vt100 emulator.  hmm...  maybe rlogin is busticated, not the emulator.
I am now running telnet instead of rlogin under the vt100 window.  It
hasn't hung yet.

Conclusion:
rlogin is broke (or so it seems to me).

Some info:
running sr10.1, bsd4.3, csh
can hang my vt100 window every time by rlogging into our vax and running
emacs. The vt100 emulator hangs on exit of emacs, as does screen.
Neither hangs when connecting with telnet instead of rlogin.

Hope this helps someone,
BS

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