On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:51:05 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
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> Here's how I fixed it, or rather, how I worked around it.
> ...
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
http://users.wowway.
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:46:45 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote:
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> 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 is
Stephen Powell wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> ...
> >> But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case "m"s
> >> 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
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 11:59:49 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote:
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> 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 'ter
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:01:10 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote:
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> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case "m"s
>> 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 an
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
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
particu
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 D
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