On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:51:05 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
Here's how I fixed it, or rather, how I worked around it.
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For those of you who are interested, I wrote up what I learned about serial
terminals and
serial consoles and put it in my lilo web page at
Stephen Powell wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
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But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case ms
at the end of each line.
D'oh! I apologize for not having read this correctly. I had
completely missed that it was only happening with 'man' and not all of
the time.
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:46:45 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote:
I would try dumping a man page to a file and then examining the file
to understand if the 'm's are in the man output or an artifact of
browsing on the terminal with less.
Here's what I did. On a terminal other than my 3151, I
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:01:10 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
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But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case ms
at the end of each line.
How does the terminal handle control-m carriage returns? Normally at
the terminal will receive a CR-NL pair and will move
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:59:49 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote:
Times change. If one waits even a short while, they can change a lot.
When this terminal was new, a 'standard' terminal was a mechanical
teletype manufactured by Teletype Corp. in Skokie, IL. The generic
name for this
Stephen Powell wrote:
I am experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I have an old IBM 3151
ASCII display terminal that has been lying around the house;
and today I decided to see if I could get it connected up to one
Fun! I never used one of those models and am unfamiliar with it in
On 20150405_0201-0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
I am experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I have an old IBM 3151
ASCII display terminal that has been lying around the house;
and today I decided to see if I could get it connected up to one
Fun! I never used one of
I am experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I have an old IBM 3151
ASCII display terminal that has been lying around the house;
and today I decided to see if I could get it connected up to one
of my PCs, which runs Debian GNU/Linux (jessie). I was successful
in doing this. But when I login to
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