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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Help on VT100 Wanted
Message-ID: <15483@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Mar 91 20:02:42 GMT
References: <1651@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1651@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> zhu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (George Zhu) writes:
>    I have a VT100 terminal in my room on the campus connecting with
>ECS computing center.  My terminal setting is
>8 bits, baud rate 9600. The problem is: when I'm using unix account,
>some garbage appear in mail and news messages (then I use CRT L a lot
>to refresh the screen).  Actually vax account works fine.

This sounds like a problem with DC3/DC1 (XOFF/XON) flow control, or more
precisely, with your not having told the host computer to support flow
control.  The System V command to enable flow control is "stty ixon -ixany".
If some applications that use so-called "raw mode" also disable flow
control, they are broken and should be fixed.