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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: line-eaters and ttys dropping chars
Message-ID: <363@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 17:38:02 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.363
Posted: Thu Jan 30 17:38:02 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 20:11:52 EST
References: <160@pyrnj.uucp>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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Xref: watmath net.news.adm:502 net.bugs.4bsd:1944

> Have a look at this one...   I know topaz, caip, and seismo, amd cmcl2
> are healthy; probably at least harvard and philabs are clean, too.  So,
> to me, rclex, adelie, axiom, and linus are questionable.
>
>	tructor. Is it difficult to find someone to teach grownups?
>	[remainder of article looks OK...]
> Romain Kang, Pyramid Technology Corporation
> UUCPnet:	{allegra,cmcl2,pyramid,topaz}!pyrnj!romain

     If the munched  line is the first line  of the article, the problem
may have nothing to do with netnews.  I have noticed on  our system that
the  tty  driver  will sometimes  drop a  partially-typed  line  without
warning or notification.  As if you  hit the line kill character, except
that  there's  no  indication  that  the  line was killed.  If you go on
typing, everything  you type  past that point  gets remembered,  but the
rest is  gone.  Really gone;  if you start hitting your erase  character
you can't erase back past the point at which it dropped your line on the
floor.

     Anyone  have  any  suggestions  (this  is  why  this  is  going  to
net.bugs.4bsd)?  Don't bother  suggesting  things like  "maybe you don't
have crtkil set"; if you kill the next line (or the still-extant portion
of the same one), it kills normally.  Besides, I have locktty set.
-- 
					der Mouse

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