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From: kerr@tron.UUCP (Dave Kerr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo termcap and rlogin
Keywords: termcap
Message-ID: <578@tron.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 22:03:56 GMT
References: <621@stdc01.UUCP>
Reply-To: kerr@tron.bwi.wec.com (Dave Kerr)
Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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In article <621@stdc01.UUCP> walsh@stdc01.UUCP (Mike Walsh) writes:
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>	I have a problem.  We have a small (7) node Apollo
>	token ring network with an ethernet gateway to our

[ problem with rlogin and emacs deleted ]

>	When entering a command, nothing is echoed and nothing
>	happens until a CONTROL-J is pressed, when the command
>	then get echoed and executed.  Can anyone explain this.
>	What we are doing is running the vt100 emulator and
>	setting the term type to vt100 on the sun.
>
>	Mike Walsh
>	walsh@stdc01  {...!uunet!mcnc!rti!stdc01!walsh}

Mike,
I've experienced similar things here, doing an rlogin from SR10.1 apollos to 
an Ultrix Vax. Things would work fine for a while, then the session would 
appear to lock up. I discovered that a ^J would echo the command line just
as you describe above. I called this in as a bug. I found that there was
a bug in /bin/ksh that can cause certain processes to hang, rlogin being one
of them. I got a patch for this and it (so far) seems to have fixed the 
hanging problem as far as crp is concerned, but the problem persists with rlogin.

I found that telnet from the apollos seems to work you might give that a try
instead of using rlogin.

Dave 

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