ecf_ujaj@jhunix.UUCP (James A. Jones) (04/01/86)
I'm posting this message to try to determine which other sites are having trouble connecting ISNs to VAXes via DMZ boards. I have been in contact with an AT&T tech. support person who is working on the problem. I thought it might help to have of list of interested parties to facilitate distributing any fixes or work-arounds that surface. Also, AT&T is interested in getting some estimate of how may sites are affected. So if you are experiencing the problem described below, please send me a message via E-mail. Please include the name(s) of the people at your site to whom information on this topic should be sent. The VAX in question here at JHU is an 8600 running VMS, but other 11/78x class sites have reported similar troubles. The problem that we (and several other ISN sites) are having is that ISN lines connected to our VAX via DMZ-32 boards display cursor movement escape sequences on the terminal in some cases. For example, when in EDT in full screen mode, holding down one of the cursor movement keys will correctly handle some of the escape sequences (and move the cursor) but sometimes the escape sequence ends up in the file. This problem does *not* happen when connecting an ISN via DMF boards. In addition we have had this problem when using two versions of VMS, 4.1a and 4.3. AT&T suggested that I change the endpoint characteristics for the VAX/8600 ports to "2 stop bits" to reduce the frequency of the escape sequence problem. This does seem to have helped although I can still reproduce the error. I would suggest trying this as it does make full screen editing workable if not perfect. -jj USENET: ihnp4!whuxcc!jhunix!ecf_ujaj ARPA: jones@hopkins BITNET: L64A0110@jhuvm CSNET: jones%hopkins.arpa@csnet-relay