writing communications software

[Laura_J_Chadha at cup.portal.com]

	I am writing a communications program that is similar to Kermit
as far as having a menu with one letter commands and prompts.

	I've noticed that when I dial into another system and execute 
Informix screens, they are all garbled.  I'm not sure if the escape
characters are being lost in the transmission or if the settings I'm
using with ioctl are a little off.  Could it have anything to do with
ISTRIP, and could someone provide me with a good explanation of ISTRIP?
I've tried looking in the manuals and some books that I have on Unix
systems programming.  I have ISTRIP on because of some examples I've
seen.

	Also, sometimes when I do an ls on a directory that has about a
page or more of files, I lose some characters.  The output pauses right
before it happens.  It doesn't happen all the time though.  Could this
have something to do with VMIN and VTIME, and if so, does anyone know
the best values for them for communications?  I have them set to '\01'
and '\0' because that's how a version of cu that I have set them.