mmorse@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Michael Morse) (01/13/87)
We are running Ultrix v1.2 on a VAX 785. Currently the system is set up to do automatic speed detection, but is inadequate for our purposes. Currently the system sends out the "login:" prompt at 9600 baud. If it doesn't like the response it gets, it sends it out again at a different speed, until the user recognizes it and responds with something besides a carriage-return. The problem with this method is that if the terminal is not set for 9600 baud, the characters appear as garbage to the terminal and cause problems with some terminal emulators (on PC's) causing them to act odd and sometimes lock up. We would like a method of speed detection that doesn't send out anything until it's sure of the speed. Curiously, our MicroVax running ULTRIX behaves just the way we want it to, waiting for a carriage return before sending anything. Anybody have any suggestions on how to configure this? Thanks a lot, Mike Morse National Science Foundation