Re: Output disappears when using interrupt key

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Wed, 14 Apr 1993 18:15:18 -0700

| I can't reproduce Jaap's problem (nor can Steven), so I suspect that
| it is specific to his system. When an interrupt occurs UNIX discards
| any output that has been written by the application but not yet
| transferred to the terminal. Maybe Jaap's system is doing this
| asynchronously and mistaking output written just after the interrupt
| for output written just before (I don't know enough about tty drivers
| to know if this is a reasonable assumption).

Well, suspicions confirmed! It's a bug in the TCP/IP software w.r.t.
telnet sessions (that has been fixed in a later release). I started
using rlogin and everything is hunky-dory.

Thanks for the help,

-Jaap-

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