[25717] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 [9.3.6]: kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jun 21 05:10:24 2004
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:46:24 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 05:10:19 -0400
cc: jweiss@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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>
> Nothing conclusive, but maybe some clues:
>
> The two sets of output are the same except for the broken set having even
> parity and thus coming across half in the clear and half from the bowels
> of ISO-8859-1.
>
> I've confirmed with jweiss that the output is the same with "n" parity
> explicitly requested, so I'd assume that kermit 8.0 broke or changed
> something in its tty driver interactions.
>
> The net vaguely suggests trying /dev/cua/a instead of /dev/term/a to
> avoid unspecified trouble.
>
> (I'll poke at this in depth at some unspecified future point if no one
> else does first; I know the c-kermit code reasonably well, and I also
> care about using kermit on an Athena sun.)
Using /dev/cua/a gets me marginally different results:
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Jonathon
