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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rlogin in background strangeness.
Message-ID: <872@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 03:33:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.872
Posted: Fri Aug 28 03:33:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 07:02:15 EDT
References: <2850@phri.UUCP> <7997@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <7997@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <2850@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>> [When running "rlogin sun &", I get noise that is always
>> "ss^@^X^@P^@^@^@^@".]

> This one is easy.  It is really

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

Shouldn't those two <DEL>s be <META-NUL>s?  (Forgive the perversion of
the ASCII names, please....)

> Your Vax is trying to tell your Sun about its `window size', and your
> Sun is not listening.

Indeed it is trying.  Why it breaks is not clear.  What is really hard
to understand is why this junk is visible only when the rlogin is run
in the background, because normally rlogin doesn't try to tell the
rlogind about the window size unless the rlogind volunteers the
information that it is interested.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)