Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!chinet!edlee
From: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix 3.11 bug?
Message-ID: <9066@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Jul 89 12:14:10 GMT
References: <1645@sactoh0>
Reply-To: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1645@sactoh0> brent@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
>
> I have a possible bug with Telix 3.11 here.  Let me explain as
>well as I can:
> 
> My BBS sends out a Ctrl-E, ASCII 4, ENQ to prompt for password and
>name input.  People calling with Telix 3.11 who have NOTHING set
>for their ENQ answerback string have problems, because Telix sends
>4 characters (a '0', ASCII 48 being one of them) whenever it sees
>an ENQ (even once inside the BBS, if they hit Ctrl-E inside message
>entry, Telix sends the same 4 character string in response to the
>echo from the BBS of the ENQ).
[....]

> Has this (possible) bug been seen elsewhere?  Can others please
>try to reproduce the (possible) bug?  If anyone knows what we're
>an all doing wrong, could they please speak up?  Thank you very much.

I have often seen Telix v3.11 send a string containing ^P+^P0 while
connected to Chinet on a noisy line.  This is irritating when Emacs
or the Ksh command line interprets the ^P characters, moves the
cursor up two lines, and inserts a "+" and "0" in my text, such as now.
<editing unwanted text>  I suspect that Telix thinks it is running
a login script even when one is not specified in the dialing
directory, when the automatic dialer is used to call a system.

The differences in dialing directories may offer a possible
explanation to differences seen by you and your callers.  To see if
the problem starts after a call from the dialing directory or
quick dialing bar, I suggest that you ask your friends to try calling
your system and other systems without the automatic dialer, immediately
after booting Telix, and to also try dialing a phone entry in the
dialing directory that has a named login script to see if the problem
goes away.


-Ed L