[comp.terminals] Help on VT100 Wanted

zhu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (George Zhu) (03/15/91)

Please help if you can:

    I have a VT100 terminal in my room on the campus connecting with
ECS computing center.  My terminal setting is
8 bits, baud rate 9600. The problem is: when I'm using unix account,
some garbage appear in mail and news messages (then I use CRT L a lot
to refresh the screen).  Actually vax account works fine.

    Any help assistance is greatly appreciated!
    My e-mail address:  ZHU@UMAECS.EDU

gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (03/16/91)

In article <1651@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> zhu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (George Zhu) writes:
>    I have a VT100 terminal in my room on the campus connecting with
>ECS computing center.  My terminal setting is
>8 bits, baud rate 9600. The problem is: when I'm using unix account,
>some garbage appear in mail and news messages (then I use CRT L a lot
>to refresh the screen).  Actually vax account works fine.

This sounds like a problem with DC3/DC1 (XOFF/XON) flow control, or more
precisely, with your not having told the host computer to support flow
control.  The System V command to enable flow control is "stty ixon -ixany".
If some applications that use so-called "raw mode" also disable flow
control, they are broken and should be fixed.