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From: earl@cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts
Subject: MODEM on RSTS V 9.6
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.165638.4481@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 16:56:38 GMT
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I recently upgraded from RSTS V 8 to RSTS V 9.6.  I have a modem
on my system (a PDP 11/73) so I can dial up from home.  I set the
KB properly, I believe.  But, the modem does not work the way it did
before, and its current behavior is unacceptable.  I cannot get on my
system from home, unless I am willing to try about twenty times.

I was told by someone that I needed to have more wires in the cable between
the modem and the computer at work.  I therefore switched to a completely
connected cable, but with no better results.

I believe I set everything up okay, because I can always connect, but I can
login successfully only one in about forty tries, and this is starting to
cause me some grief.  What I see is that on my PC from home, when I dial
in to work, I get
	login:  R
	login:  I
	login:  N
	login:  G

or something to this effect (sometimes I also get CONNECT 1200 in the same
one letter to the line patters, with each letter apparently being seen
as a login attempt).  Always, when this happens, the cursor ends up at
the left end of the screen, with no login possible.  When things go right,
I get this stuff anyway, but the cursor ends up just to the right of the
word login on one of the lines, and I am able to login.

My suspicion is that it has something to do with the slowness of the computer
at work, because several programs at work that run on a PC and automatically
login to the RSTS system to download files, had to have waits inserted into
them, so that the password was not sent until after the PDP-11 asked for it.

If anyone has any help on this, I would greatly appreciate it.
If anyone knows of a RSTS consultant in the New York area who might be able
to help me with this, I would also appreciate hearing about them.  As you
might have guessed, I am so desperate now that I am willing to actually
pay for a solution to this problem.

Please feel free to call me at (212)854-8884 if you have any help on this
problem, or else respond via the net or email to earl@cs.columbia.edu.