saf (11/24/82)
There is very little to report regarding dealing with spurious break signals on BSD 4.1 Un*x. The bulk of the suggestions were to set the interrupt character to something other than <delete> but BSD treats break the same as your interrupt character regardless of what the interrupt character is so that is no help. Other suggestions were to: nohup things use emacs to control your shell and re-map characters (I assume this suffers from the above lack but I don't really know) modify the driver to treat break and interrupt separately (I like this the best and may give it a try) enable parity to try to filter out the bad characters (may help in some cases but break isn't a character in the strict sense so this doesn't work) switch to USG which already has the feature (this was accompanied by a modest amount of gloating) do something unpleasant to the Phone Company for putting the noise on the lines in the first place (has possibilities but then again I work for BTL) Steve Falco BTL WH floyd!saf (201)386-4865