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From: C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Handshake gripes (was Re: Does ARP have problems?
Message-ID: <910317.154305.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:43:05 GMT
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In Message-ID: <1991Mar17.014544.40347@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
          jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu said:
>In article <910316.180915.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>, C506634@UMCVMB.MISS
>> 1.60b..   Under very low memory conditions or heavy fragmentation, try to ope
>> the phonebook.  LOCKUP.  No messages, no guru.  No problems with the rest of
>
>I have found that Handshake is just not a stable program as long as I have
>tried to use it... I have had the same lockup problems with or without external
>protocols. The phonebook, as you said, causes lockups sometimes, I haven't
>noticed any correlation with low memory though... but the most annoying thing
>(I just don't use the phone book to avoid that one) is that random input (i.e.
>someone picks up the phone while modeming, or random line noise) can often
>cause a crash!!! This is not good. In my situation it crashes often enough to

Did the program actually crash or did the keyboard just seem to go dead?
Like any good vt220 many of Handshake's settings can be changed with escape
sequences.  For example, if you log into a VMS system in vt100 or vt102 mode
the host will interogate the terminal, discover that it's really a vt220 and
tell handshake to switch to vt220 mode!  The problem is, sometimes line noise
can duplicate these sequences and put ther terminal in a very strange state.
The standard solution from 2.12 is to toggle to vt52 and back.  (I don't
remember if reset terminal works or not)

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