OpenStep (NeXT) and TTY modes

[Nicolas Williams]

Without those flags being set we get: a) no echo, b) no CR.

The command that fixes the problem is "stty -nl echo".

Perhaps there's something different about your OpenStep systems and
ours? (apart from the hw -- we use x86 hw).

Nico


On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:25:06AM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> 
> I have to ask since I did the core NeXT work.. What issues are you seeing
> that adding the below 3 lines fix?
> 
> I've been using the NeXT (OpenStep 4.2 and NeXTStep 3.3 on Black hardware)
> for about a year now without noticing any abnormal issues.
> 
> - Ben
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> > Ok, the correct modes to add, before parsing the client-sent tty modes,
> > are:
> >
> > #ifdef HAVE_NEXT
> > 	tio.c_oflag |= ONLCR;
> > 	tio.c_lflag |= ECHO;
> > 	tio.c_iflag |= ICRNL;
> > #endif /* HAVE_NEXT */
> >
> > We've tested this change and find that it fixes the problem with tty
> > modes on OpenStep.
> >
> > Nico
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:38:24PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > > OpenStep, apparently, does not initialize new pty/tty modes to a sane
> > > default.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking this code snippet, added to tty_parse_modes() before the
> > > for(;;) loop should suffice:
> > >
> > > #ifdef HAVE_NEXT
> > > 	tio.c_oflag |= ONLCR;
> > > 	tio.c_lflag |= ECHO;
> > > #endif /* HAVE_NEXT */
> > >
> > > Also, I've noticed that "ssh -t next_host stty" gives different output
> > > than an interactive session to the same NeXT... I suspect that this
> > > means that the SSH client is sending a different set of tty modes to the
> > > sshd on the NeXT... Is that so? Does that make sense?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Nico
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