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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:

    Curt> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

    >> I have an AST 4 port card with 16550s in a P133 (istari). Each
    >> of the ports connects to the serial console of a different
    >> machine.  ...  When it crashes, and winds up in ddb, *and*
    >> istari has not got a kermit open on that port....

    Curt> Give up on kermit and run rtty. You can get it from
    Curt> ftp://ftp.cynic.net/pub/unix/source/rtty-3.2.tar.gz.

  A good idea... it was even on my todo list :-)
  I got screen from pkgsrc (cool, it even installed texinfo for me...)
and that does the trick for now... 
 
  However, this doesn't deal the root cause: crashing when the are
characters in the input buffer and/or weird state on the control
lines. I will be upgraded to 1.3alpha soon, but I thought I'd raise
a flag anyway.

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