uucp VS 4.2
code 101
honey at down.UUCP
Fri Mar 30 13:48:56 AEST 1984
when typing at a low baud rate to a uart listening at a high baud rate,
the uart can miss the stop bit(s), causing a framing error, yielding a
break. thus, if getty is set up to switch from high baud rates to low
ones, it's convenient to type the line kill character a few times to
get to the right baud rate. one string of bits that works better than
most is 0100, which is, you guessed it, @.
there are two lessons here: use getty choices in decreasing order, and
give @ special treatment.
re-iterating john linderman's original bug report, there's also the
fact that for years, sites in the know having been passing out L.sys
login scripts containing "" @ and in:- at -in:. who is now responsible
for changing the L.sys files on the neighboring sites?
peter honeyman
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