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Re: adm3a control `g` problem

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 04 May 1987 20:52
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In article <344@dasys1.UUCP> mjablow@dasys1.UUCP (Mark Jablow) writes:
>I recently purchased a lear siegler adm3a terminal and I 
>have been having trouble with it.  Whenever the terminal receives a 
>control`g`, it begins scrolling the text on the screen in reverse and, 
>when it does this, garbled text from the screen is sent from the terminal.

You're triggering the RAM-dump feature.  You need to be sure your
RS-232-C connector does not supply a signal to one of the pins
that controls this (I forget which pin; it's in the technical
manual).
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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: adm3a control `g` problem
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 16:52:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 16:52:47 1987
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