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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rlogin in background strangeness.
Message-ID: <7997@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 22:02:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.7997
Posted: Sun Aug 16 22:02:19 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Aug-87 04:42:54 EDT
References: <2850@phri.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2850@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>... I get a burst of noise in addition to the regular output.
>Well, it's even stranger than that.  The noise is repeatable.  It's
>always "ss^@^X^@P^@^@^@^@".

This one is easy.  It is really

	<DEL><DEL> s s <NUL><CAN><NUL> P <NUL><NUL><NUL><NUL>,

and this is window_size = 24 rows 80 cols, 0 ypixels 0 xpixels.

Your Vax is trying to tell your Sun about its `window size',
and your Sun is not listening.  Why it breaks I cannot say; we
run locally hacked versions of rlogin and kernels on our Suns.
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