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From: se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: telnet problems in Ultrix 4.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.132034.111040@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Date: 28 Jun 91 13:20:34 GMT
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In article <3099@racine.ACA.MCC.COM>, clive@racine.ACA.MCC.COM (Clive Dawson) writes:
|> I just upgraded my 3100 to Ultrix 4.2 and immediately discovered
|> a very annoying problem with telnet.  Somebody has apparently 
|> done us the "favor" of redefining several defaults.  For example,
|> CTRL-S, CTRL-Q, and CTRL-O no longer get passed through to
|> the remote host.  Emacs is rather crippled without these characters,
|> to say the least...

That's about the same kind of improvement as seen in 'dd'. 
DEC put in a 'multi volume' mode AND MADE IT THE DEFAULT !
That means that every single shell script for backup and other purposes 
has to be changed (add a 'conv=nomulti' option) !
In the beginning there was data lost at this site because we didn't expect 
such a silly default behaviour ...
There was recently a posting of csh scripts to copy distribution tapes.
Every call of 'dd' had this 'conv=nomulti', no single use without this 
option added ...

Why did DEC make 'multi volume' the default behaviour ?
If I could *optionally* switch to multi volume mode by 'conv=multi' 
everything were fine. 
Is there a chance its changed back to be compatible with everybody else ?

Sometimes I get the impression that DEC is more interested in making 
Ultrix VMS compatible (providing interfaces to VMS) than in keeping it 
UNIX compatible ...

Stefan
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 Stefan Esser,  Institute of Nuclear Physics,  University of Cologne,  Germany
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