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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Modem/VT100 problem
Keywords: vt100 Avatec modem help
Message-ID: <9991@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 20 Jun 88 23:13:19 GMT
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In article <1108@damask.UUCP> hardie@damask.UUCP (Peter Hardie ) writes:
>In article <6512@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
|| Ever since I've been using my new Avatec 2400-baud modem and VT100 v2.8,
|| I've been having problems when I exit VT100.
|| Shortly after I click the close gadget and turn off my modem, the
|| system either locks up, 
|| Has anybody else experienced this problem?  Could the modem be the
|| cause?  Or must I suspect poor, loveable VT100?
|I have a Hayes smartmodem 1200 and have had this problem for a long time
|now with several other modem/terminal programs. 
|It only happens when the remote end drops the carrier and this occasionally
|causes the amiga to go bye-bye. The mouse can still be moved around but trying
|to terminate vt100 by clicking on the left-hand button don't work anymore.

A known problem of the current serial.device is the "lock up" that
can occur when switching baud rates (more so if the rates are VERY different).
Random data, when turning off a modem, can produce the same results.  
I believe this won't be fixed until Bryce rewrites the serial device for
1.4 (Bryce?). So, please don't blame the terminal program(s).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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