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From: andys@genesis.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 610 terminal gone flakey
Summary: check .profile or .kshrc for a bad stty
Keywords: ....help, medic.....
Message-ID: <518@genesis.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 17:20:54 GMT
References: <607@whizz.uucp>
Reply-To: andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman)
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, West Long Branch, N.J.
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In article <607@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
>I am using a 610 terminal on a 3B1. The system is now about 1 1/2 years old,
>    ................
>	1. When I backspace at the command-line, then enter another
>command over the old one and hit <Return>, I get something like the
>following:
>
>		$ cat                      [type in command 'cat']
>		$                          [now use <Backspace> to back up]
>		$ ls                       [type in the new command]
>		$ cat^H^H^Hls              [huh?]
>		$ cat^H^H^Hls: not found   
>
>	2. When I am in the user-agent and attempt to remove files that
>are queued up to print, I can only delete the first one - the down-arrow key
>generates it's escape sequences (seen on the lower left portion of the screen),
>but will not roll down. Also in this screen, I cannot use the mark key. The
>signals are simply not going out to the box, evidently. Other screens seem ok,
>though, of the several ones I went and checked.
>

It sounds like you have invalid stty options on the port.
Have you changed your .profile, .kshrc, /etc/rc, /etc/profile, and
so on, in their set up of the serial port?
-- 
andy sherman / at&t bell laboratories (medical diagnostic systems)
room 2e-108 / 185 monmouth pkwy / west long branch, nj 07764-1394
(201) 870-7018 / andys@shlepper.ATT.COM
...The views and opinions are my own.  Who else would want them?