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Help! Minicom.

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From: Tony Langdon
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:00
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It's 23 Jul 97  19:20,
We'll return to rchen@postbox.usyd.edu.au and All's
discussion of Help! Minicom.

 rc> I'm currently using Red Hat 4.0 and got a problem using minicom.
 rc> After  running minicom from root direc, I entered my login and
 rc> passwd.
 rc> then there are some non printable chareacter on the screen, then
 rc> after a few seconds, the connection was lost.

 rc> Could anyone tell me how to solve this problem and
 rc> establish the connection?

I had this problem once.  Turned out not to be Linux, but was some sort
of screwed up modem settings.  Resetting the modem to factory defaults
fixed the problem. :-)  Needless to say, the problem was OS
independent...

... If (output == CRAP) eat_words();
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From: tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon)
Subject: Help! Minicom.
Date: 1997/07/24
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