scrambled text from kcdev

[Kevin Darcy]

In article <956 at kcdev.UUCP> obrien at kcdev.UUCP (John Obrien x4089) writes:

(I'll try to answer this, but I guess I'm a little unsure what you are
asking...)

>
>Does anyone else receive scrambled text from their feed site?
>I have been getting this since forever from kcdev in K.C,?
>... The symptoms are that for any given 'cat' 
>which I issue to read anything (not just USENET stuff), I receive
>about one screen full of clear text and then only scrambled text until
>the end of the file.  

Can I assume then that you are logging into kcdev via modem?? I.e. this
is not actually a (host-to-host news) "feed"??

>During one very long 'ls' I noticed a pattern,
>each line after, I think the first buffer, was skewed one place
>and the message numbers were similar to what they should be, but
>not quite.  

"Messages numbers" on an ls? Were you ls'ing a news directory, where each 
article has a numbered filename? This does begin to sound like a 
flow-control/buffering problem to me...

>I have tried setting my 'stty' to every imaginable
>variation as well as setting 'stty' on the 'kcdev' end.  No Luck!
>Also this only seems to happen when I'm calling from my UNIX-pc (7300)
>or my 3B1.  

Ah, so you are "calling", i.e. presumably on a modem... well, I suspect
that your problem stems from a hardware flow control setting on the EPORTS
card that interfaces the modem to the 3B2. I always have to remember to
turn that off when I call my main 3B2 at work directly (I usually go 
through another machine and either Starlan or ISN over to it). The EPORTS
setting is somewhat independent of normal stty settings, so if this is the
problem, I'm not surprised that your experimentations with "stty" were to no
avail. To check your EPORTS stty setting, just do "epstty -a". This should 
return with either "hfc" (hardware flow control enabled), or "-hfc" 
(disabled). You can disable the flow control with "epstty -hfc".

>Also this does not happen when I access "kcdev" from my terminal at
>work, which is direct connected via ISN.  

Your ISN connection is somewhat different than a modem connection -
especially the ISN-to-3B2 part of it, if it uses 3BFIM's (fiber optics).
If on fiber, stty/epstty settings have little to no effect, not even speed, 
and especially not flow control settings.

>Any Help will be welcomed
>KCDEV is a 3B2, if that helps.

I don't know if this helps, since I don't know if kcdev has EPORTS, an ISN 
Fiber Interface, or even for sure if you are calling into it via modem (or
some other EPORTS-connected device, perhaps?)...
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