line-eaters and ttys dropping chars
der Mouse
mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP
Fri Jan 31 08:38:02 AEST 1986
> Have a look at this one... I know topaz, caip, and seismo, amd cmcl2
> are healthy; probably at least harvard and philabs are clean, too. So,
> to me, rclex, adelie, axiom, and linus are questionable.
>
> tructor. Is it difficult to find someone to teach grownups?
> [remainder of article looks OK...]
> Romain Kang, Pyramid Technology Corporation
> UUCPnet: {allegra,cmcl2,pyramid,topaz}!pyrnj!romain
If the munched line is the first line of the article, the problem
may have nothing to do with netnews. I have noticed on our system that
the tty driver will sometimes drop a partially-typed line without
warning or notification. As if you hit the line kill character, except
that there's no indication that the line was killed. If you go on
typing, everything you type past that point gets remembered, but the
rest is gone. Really gone; if you start hitting your erase character
you can't erase back past the point at which it dropped your line on the
floor.
Anyone have any suggestions (this is why this is going to
net.bugs.4bsd)? Don't bother suggesting things like "maybe you don't
have crtkil set"; if you kill the next line (or the still-extant portion
of the same one), it kills normally. Besides, I have locktty set.
--
der Mouse
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