Laura_J_Chadha@cup.portal.com (06/12/89)
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.