richardneal
Technical User
Hello,
I am new to this forum. I hope I am roughly in the right one! Please advise me if you think this question should be put somewhere else.
I have a system with a unix server running SCO OpenServer(TM) Release 5, with lots of dumb terminals connected to the server via a "Specialix" box. The baud rate is 19200.
I have a piece of software that was originally written for Xenix and was transfered over to Unix some time ago. Since then there is about a 5% error rate on some commands entered by either function keys or arrow keys. A typical command would be "ESC [ T" to change the screen. Now it has been suggested to me that the problem is that unix has a very short timeout set to accept such a sequence and that if transmission is slow, or delayed this is not recognised as a single commnad but as 2 or 3 separate commands. If this is so then my simplistic approach to this is to find out if I can alter the unix timeout. Can I do this?
Richard Neal
I am new to this forum. I hope I am roughly in the right one! Please advise me if you think this question should be put somewhere else.
I have a system with a unix server running SCO OpenServer(TM) Release 5, with lots of dumb terminals connected to the server via a "Specialix" box. The baud rate is 19200.
I have a piece of software that was originally written for Xenix and was transfered over to Unix some time ago. Since then there is about a 5% error rate on some commands entered by either function keys or arrow keys. A typical command would be "ESC [ T" to change the screen. Now it has been suggested to me that the problem is that unix has a very short timeout set to accept such a sequence and that if transmission is slow, or delayed this is not recognised as a single commnad but as 2 or 3 separate commands. If this is so then my simplistic approach to this is to find out if I can alter the unix timeout. Can I do this?
Richard Neal
