root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (05/13/89)
I just bought two ADDS Viewpoint 90 terminals - one as a second console wired to my SCO Xenix 80286 v2.2.1 machine, and the other to be attached to a modem for general dialing out... I have two questions: 1) Does someone have a termcap entry for the ADDS Viewpoint 90 terminal? I haven't been able to find one, and the other assorted ADDS terminal entries generate trash on the screen. And 2) The terminals _require_ that parity be used, and offer Odd, Even, Mark, and Space partiy; they also have a setting for "Use 1 Stop Bit? " where turning this option off seems to set the terminal to use 2 top bits. I've been able, with liberal experimentation and use of the stty command, to get the terminals talking to the Xenix machine clearly and without parity errors (the terminals nicely tell you when something generates a parity error), but I've _not_ been able to set up an entry in /etc/gettydefs to have these modes at startup time, so it is necessary to mess around with the terminal setup in order to be able to login from it, then stty to the right things, then re-setup the terminal... I'm trying this gettydefs line now: t # B9600 HUPCL # B9600 SANE ODDP INPCK CSTOPB HUPCL \ IXON IXANY #\r\n@!login: # t (the line is not broken like that in the real file) and I've set the /etc/ttys entry for tty2a to be "1ttty2a" and a "ps -elf" does show me that the getty on tty2a is running with gettydefs entry "t" but nonetheless it doesn't work right... Can someone help me with a corrected gettydefs line, or a complete list of what I can put in gettydefs and what they mean (the manuals are as obtuse as always :-( ) ? Thanks in advance! ------------- Jay Libove jl42@andrew.cmu.edu, libove@cs.cmu.edu, 5731 Centre Ave, Apt 3 gateway.sei.cmu.edu!libove!libove, jl42@andrew.BITnet, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove, (412) 362-8983 or uunet!nfsun!libove!libove