IBM 3151 Terminals...

Hi Ho Silver silver at xrtll.uucp
Fri Dec 28 09:37:00 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec26.055509.10282 at ttank.ttank.com> karl at ttank.ttank.com writes:
$Has anyone had any real success with the IBM 3151 terminals under
$SCO Xenix?  We have the 'latest-greatest' version of termcap from SCO.
$They seem to feel everything is working fine.  But we have misc. screen
$garbage, cursor hops (just seems to move by itself but is very repeatable).

[further description removed]

   It sounds to me like your flow control, if any, isn't working properly
and you're sending data (particularly control codes) faster than the
terminal can handle it.  I've had similar problems with IBM 3164s.  Try
doing tests that send a few escape sequences (the more they do, the better;
clearing the screen and tabbing around might be good choices) and then run
a command that sends several lines of output.  If you start losing bits,
then it probably means that you're sending data before the terminal has
finished processing the control codes.
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