the scrambled getty?

[Martin Weitzel]

In article <5651 at holston.UUCP> barton at holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
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>not associated with the outside world. A kill -9 has no effect
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Nearly all the time such a thing happens, it has something to
do with hardware malfunction. In case of serial lines, it is
often a problem of missing flow control to become active (ie
the driver has seen XOFF and is waiting for XON or the
corresponding hardware lines are not asserted).
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