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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:52:46 +0000
Subject: Re: Fix staircase effect on Altix serial console.
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Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:20:46PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> writes:
>>=20
>> > Are you connected via usb or a DB-9 serial connector?
>>=20
>> DB-9, I think.
>
> The last time I connected to the DB-9 on the back of an Altix,
> I was using minicom (I think) and just changed it so it
> would interpret LF as CRLF.

This is plain wrong.  Just try running a fullscreen program like vi and
watch your screen being garbled.

Andreas.

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