Re: tty direct connet login FIXED

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@SuperST.iae.nl>]

hi Brent,

> For the last several months, I have been fighting a login problem on
> on a TT030 with direct connected terminals. The problem was changed
> terminal protcol from 8 bit to 7 bit. I assumed it was the login 
> program that did this because the login prompt was ok. Garbled text
> did not occur until the password prompt.

same here. and i didn't fancy diving into mintos.

> After confiring with Stephen Usher, who suggested the problem was the
> getty program, I looked at the source for his Getty and the KGMD
> modified Getty. The KGMD getty was modified to make window login work
> better, but made tty logins not work in 8 bit mode.
> 
> The cure is to install the original getty from the mintos-1.4.1 pkg.
> Thanks to Stephen and others you made suggestions to correct this pain
> in the butt problem, that took all of 2 minutes to fix.

so thanks for this fix. now i can have my kids login onto my falcon,
and let them play with perl and mail.

thanks, carel