[comp.unix.xenix] Help -> modem problems

eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) (02/28/89)

I just reinstalled my xenix, to 2.3. I was running 2.2.2 and my Hayes
SmartModem 2400B was working great. Now I get garbage on the screen, and
must issue "stty istrip </dev/tty2A" to get the darned thing to work (6 hours
or experiments determined this). Have I done something wrong or is there 
something I failed to do during installation, or is there a known bug in 
cu/ct ?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver) (03/11/89)

In article <84@althea.UUCP> eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) writes:
>I just reinstalled my xenix, to 2.3. I was running 2.2.2 and my Hayes
>SmartModem 2400B was working great. Now I get garbage on the screen, and
>must issue "stty istrip </dev/tty2A" to get the darned thing to work (6 hours
>or experiments determined this). Have I done something wrong or is there 
>something I failed to do during installation, or is there a known bug in 
>cu/ct ?

cu under 2.3 no longer sets ISTRIP as it did in previous versions.  This
was done so that 8-bit characters could be recieved.  It sounds like the
site your calling uses 7 data bits with parity.  You can use the -e and
-o options to cu to get 7 data bits, even and odd parity, respectively.

Ross Oliver
Technical Support
The Santa Cruz Operation