[comp.unix.ultrix] Oliver's screen and tip

gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) (05/26/89)

      I've been having difficulty with Oliver's Screen program ever
  since I installed Ultrix 3.0 .
      If I start up a tip(1) process (I even tried it with tip from Ultrix
  2.2 under Ultrix 3.0) in one of the screens, a large percentage of the
  charectors sent to the screen don't get displayed.

  Example:

  $ tip prls
  (connected to /dev/tty18)
  <cr>                                    /* from my keyboard, responce: */
  UltirxV.0-(r1
              loi: oro                    /* login:gordon  */
                      Pwor:               /* Passwd:       */
                           tloi:M50::9ott0
                                          UltrixV.0-Ste5:St30::5PS9

  and so it goes. Seem that everything I type is understood at the prls end.
  Misc other facts: Vax 11/750 dmf32 port to VAX 11/780 dmf32 port. Both
   machines run Ultrix. Screen and tip have always worked together fine
   in the past (prior to Ultrix 3.0 installation on the 11/750).

  Thank-you for any assistance
Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 (Sunnyvale,Ca); {mips|pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon
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grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (05/31/89)

In article <22460@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
> 
>       I've been having difficulty with Oliver's Screen program ever
>   since I installed Ultrix 3.0 .
>       If I start up a tip(1) process (I even tried it with tip from Ultrix
>   2.2 under Ultrix 3.0) in one of the screens, a large percentage of the
>   charectors sent to the screen don't get displayed.
> 
>   UltirxV.0-(r1
>               loi: oro                    /* login:gordon  */
>                       Pwor:               /* Passwd:       */

Smells like a parity problem to me!  Somebody is checking parity on
input and discarding characters with "bad" parity.  I switched over 
to Ultrix 3.0 last nite and have already had some complaints about
kermit/xmodem/ymodem being broken, though uucp seems to be working
just fine.  One might suspect that something has been "improved"
in "raw" or "cbreak" mode input processing.

Did you get to the bottom of this?  What is Olivers Screen program?



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john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) (06/01/89)

In article <7017@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> ....  I switched over 
> to Ultrix 3.0 last nite and have already had some complaints about
I've been using Ultrix 3.0 with kermit(4C 057)/tip since January
with no problems. I used kermit for file transfer between xenix/ultrix
with direct connections.