Info-3b2 Digest, Number 26

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                           Info-3b2 Digest, Number 26
 
                          Wednesday, October 19th 1988
 
Today's Topics:
 
                                Forwarded mail...
                         Re:  Info-3b2 Digest, Number 23
                                 Trouble with rn
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Date: 17 Oct 88 11:09:35 MDT (Mon)
From: udenva!scicom.alphacdc.com!isis!cyrill (Cyro Lord)

Thanks for the information on the devtools.
Great response and information. The price
is now at $55.00.

Cyro Lord	Alpha Comm. Dev. Corp. -  DOMAIN  cyrill at scicom.alphacdc.com
UUCP		{ncar,nbires,boulder,isis}!scicom!cyrill
Being alive is learning to make love with what you most fear. - James Baldwin

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From: ucsfmis!ide!uunet!3b2!danno
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 88 21:37:15 EDT
Subject: Trouble with rn

The following sob story regards an AT&T 3b2/400 SVR3.1.
Terminals & PC's connected via StarLAN.

I recently downloaded rn version 4.3 from uunet.  Configure & Make ran
without a whimper.  Real clean.  I looked over what I built, su'd & did a
"make install".  

Now, I try to run rn.  I get the "Welcome to RN" message, and "press return
to continue" in reverse video at the bottom of the screen.  I press return,
but rn does not continue. I press return again, nothing.  I press INTR,
nothing.  Press it again & I get "caught an internal error-restoring
.newsrc" and back to the shell.

I start it again & leave it to cook, thinking maybe it needs to do some kind
of initialization.  An hour later,  the same screen is staring at me.  From
another terminal,  ps tells me a lot of activity is going on.  This
terminal is connected to the 3B2 via RS232C-NAU (Asynch/StarLAN Gateway).

Next day,  I go to the Console & try running it there.... IT WORKS!  and
such a nice news reader, too!

Now,  the only difference I can find is that the console is /dev/console,
and the Terminal uses /dev/slanxx (00-31).   Is there some fundamental
difference between the asynch tty driver & the starlan tty driver?  I'm
guessing this is where the problem lies.

Where do I begin?  I'm not too proficient in C to do this on my own.
Does anyone have any Idea where I should start.

Sorry for the  L O N G message,  but I'd love to get this package up &
running on StarLAN.  If I keep sneaking into the computer room to read the
news,  people will be wondering what I'm up to.

Tx.

danno
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	Daniel S. Notov		|	{monster,uunet}!onm3b2!danno     
	Ogilvy & Mather, Inc.	|	"...advertising that sells"
	New York, NY		|		David Ogilvy 			

 
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