Chat2.pl and pty probs on a SparcII

[-=Runaway Daemon=-]

Not sure which newsgroup is best here.. 

I am finally getting the hang of chat2.pl and doing some fun little 
stuff and after much frustrating banging, thinking that my code was 
messed up, I realized that it was the ptys that were hanging on the
Sparc I am using, or to be more precise, it in the process of opening 
a pty it hangs.  I shouldn't have been surprised when I found this 
out as I run 'screen' all the time and it also hangs.  Ussually
I go to open a new pty and it locks up.. so I kill that window
and then try again, and after a few times, it might work.  As a test
I have left 'screen' trying to open a pty or two for several hours 
and it never gets it right.  

I never have this problem on our DEC but unfortunately chat2.pl doesn't 
doesn't work right on the DEC so I am in a bit of a bind.  
Has anyone else had this problem?  
Is it just a Sun problem?
Can it be fixed?  

If there was some way to check the status of the pty or to clear the
status of it or something like that, that would be great... but 
for now, anything that I make is totally unreliable and at best works 
33% of the time.. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks... 

	ian

-=Runaway Daemon=-         (UNIXOPS  University of Colorado at Boulder)