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From: maa@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark A Allyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Odd Terminal Behavior
Keywords: Terminals Modems Telnet VI
Message-ID: <3527@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 90 19:39:49 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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I am having wierd terminal behavior when I am using my terminal and modem
and trying to use VI. Here is the set up:

1. Terminal is a Tandy DT100 which emulates a VT100.
2. Modem is a DSI 9624le running at 2400 baud.
3. Modem at host machine is unknown but is capable of up to 2400
   baud.
4. Host machine is a VAX780 running BSD4.3
5. I telnet to another host machine (this being a Sun Sparc 1+ running
   SunOs 4.01). Note that I can only use telnet since the Sun's host
   name and address is not in the host table in the VAX and rlogin 
   expects a host name and not a decimimal notation of an Internet
   address.
6. Once on the Sun, I do the following.
  a. setenv TERM vt100
  b. stty 2400
  c. stty cols 80
  d. stty rows 24
7. I attempt to run VI or do anything else.

I think that the terminal is either getting spurous characters or there
is no control of the speed of the output of the VI or other session that
I am running. I would think that the stty 2400 should take care of that
but it appears not to. Is there something else that I have to do in order
to ensure that the buffering between the application and the terminal
is not being overloaded?

Thanks!


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