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From: dko@calmasd.GE.COM (Dan O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Core dump on Pyramid
Message-ID: <2692@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 88 00:25:33 GMT
Organization: GE Calma R&D
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Keywords: Emacs core dump on Pyramid

On terminals, whose physical connection is to a DEC LAT box and then to
our Pyramid system, GNU Emacs will not start up.  However, emacs runs
correctly over any other type of connection.

Emacs is started in a normal fashion and the LAT returns several 
control-G's, followed by the question "Auto-save (y or n)?", and
finally the question "Core dump (yes or no)?".

We have been able to determine that the control-G's are being sent out
by the LAT to the terminal as an indication of "data overrun" or
"buffer full".

This is not a flow control problem with the terminal that
(set-input-mode xx xx) will handle, but rather something to do with
cbreak vs. raw mode.

I am stuck.  If any of you can give me some pointers as to where to
look or how to locate the section in Emacs which is responsible for
terminal initialization I will be most grateful.

One final note, the version of Unipress Emacs we have on the Pyramid
does not experience this problem.  We are unable to switch over to GNU
Emacs until we can run it over the DEC LAT boxes.

-- 
Dan O'Neill			dko@calmasd.GE.COM
GE Calma R&D			...!sdcsvax!calmasd!dko