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2602.0. "SWXCR MGR & charac cell terminal" by BLKRUS::PCUMMINGS (The perfect democracy) Wed May 21 1997 17:46

    
    Figured I try this conference ........
    
    /paul
    
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SANITY::PCUMMINGS "The perfect democracy"            16 lines  16-MAY-1997 18:13
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    We've recently acquired AS4100s based DUnix TruClusters with only
    character cell console terminals (no graphics heads).  Found that we
    had to run SWXCRMGR from floppy and had a heck of time with the utility
    because it was slow, but worse, the output from the SWXCRMGR utility
    was barely readable!  Many bogus or 'substitute' characters are printed
    in the process.  Also, appears there are many substitute commands
    required when using a character cell terminal (i.e. Cntrl B = F2, etc).
    
    I want to believe that some of what we saw was because of incompatible
    terminal settings. 
    
    Does anyone know where this stuff is well documented? 
    
    thanx
    /paul
    

    Yep, character cell versions are slow and buggy.  Unfortuantly, Digital 
    doesn't own the software and can't seem to influence the owners to get
    it fixed.


    The only tip I can give you is to be sure you set your terminal to
    enable 8-bit controls.  That at least seems to get the Fn key to work
    properly.  This applies to the ECU in CC mode.  I actually never ran
    the SWXCR in CC mode, but I image in runs just as poorly.


    							-Paul

Also set XOFF to a high value (128 or higher) on the terminal.
I have seen console hangs/swxcrmgr problems because of a low setting.

�tzi

Forgot to mention:
Use SRLMGR with character cell terminals!

�tzi