Parity Dispair

[Andrew Burt]

Our 90x, OSx 4.0, has been converted into a public access box, and a problem
that never was a bother before has become a major hindrance.  The ITP driver
seems to insist on sending out even parity, and nothing I've tried seems to
get it to send NO parity.  (Most folks who call in, and the rest of the machines
around here are 8 bits No parity.)  It's particularly baffling to first time
callers, with PCs, who get cute graphics characters instead of "login:"; most
never figure it out.

So, netlanders, what's the fix?  If we had driver source, I could fix it
in a jiffy (as I did when this system was on a PDP 11/70 with 2.10 BSD).

And upgrading our version of OSx is strictly out of the question.  So I need
a fix that sends no 8th bit, or 4.0 ITP driver source, or some trick I've
overlooked.  This is using the ucb init (tried "ap" in gettytab, but that
doesn't affect what it sends out).

If anyone's interested in trying the system out, it's nyx.cs.du.edu,
130.253.192.9.  No anon ftp, but get yourself a login & look around.
-- 
Andrew Burt 				   			uunet!isis!aburt
								or aburt at du.edu

                            "Kwyjibo on the loose!"