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eaf2239@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

>I am having a great deal of difficulty getting the serial ports under GNO to
>work properly under the gsh shell.
> 
>1.  Even with the serial ports echo off I get 2 char. back for each I type on
>the terminal display.  Data sent to the terminal from the GS is only singal
>chars as it should be.

  Use the command "stty -echo" to stop this from happening. 
 
>2.  Some simple C programs I'v tried writing just to get a feel for gno are
>doing some funny things.  Mainly, when these programs are executed on another
>terminal (other than the GS), the programs will only dump text out to the
>terminals when another program ie-ls or ps, is dumping output to the GS screen.
>When the program on "the GS" stops, so do the programs runing on the terminals.

  Make sure you're using the GNO-specific serial devices ".ttya" and ".ttyb".
Using the GS/OS generated serial drivers does in fact result in the behavior
you mentioned.

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