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From: system@asuvax.asu.edu (Marc Lesure)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Problem with pty's losing baud rate on 4.3bsd-tahoe
Keywords: pty stty telnet
Message-ID: <1079@asuvax.asu.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 20:18:26 GMT
Organization: Arizona State Univ, Tempe
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I'm having a problem with 4.3-tahoe running on a HCX-7.  Every so often
some of the pty ports (i.e., ttypX, ttyqX, etc) seem to go "bad".  On a 
"good" port, 'stty' reports the baud rate as 38400.  When the port is "bad",
'stty' reports the baud rate as 0.  This makes vi give you a window size
of 8.  If you do a 'stty X', where X is greater than 1200, vi gives a window
size of 32 (real drag if you're on a vt100).  Different ports go bad with no
obvious pattern and they stay bad until the system is rebooted.  We also are
running 4.3-tahoe on our VAX 780 without this problem.  All terminal sessions
on both machines are over the ethernet via terminal servers, telnet, or
rlogin.  Any ideas?

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