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From: jaap@sequent.UUCP (Jaap Vermeulen)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Interactive rlogin problem with nn SOLVED (w/diff)
Keywords: nn, rlogin, rlogind, urgent, oob, ISC
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Date: 30 Oct 90 05:36:29 GMT
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andy@xwkg.Icom.Com (Andrew H. Marrinson) writes:

>Wow, I found what was happening!  The problem was that when doing the
>ioctl to set the terminal mode to and from raw mode nn was using TCSETAF,
>which means set parameters and flush.  Evidently, if this happened with
>a partially complete packet still to be sent, that packet would be
>flushed using the urgent pointer as described in my previous posting.
>This led to the missing data.

Good work!
I know that several people were running into this problem.
The initial culprit was thought to be the XON/XOFF settings of the line
somewhere (at least that is what I understood).

If you're ever in Portland, I'll buy you lunch :-)

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