Subject: the strangest thing I've ever seen

From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:25:35 -0400

1) using kermit, I connect to my school (Novell network), I login and 
select, 'telnet' to get to my mail account at capitalist.princeton.edu

2) I begin to read my mail and news through pine.

3) at some point, usually while composing a message, something happens 
(sorry, that's all I can say.  Nothing visisble hapens, but obviously 
something is happening) and all of a sudden I lose the ability to type.

that's not even the weird part.

Whatever character/key I press, it starts printing out OLD keystrokes 
from much earlier in the session (always from the same session).  I get 
to see everything I typed, all over again, and when it finishes, it just 
hangs there like a program in WinDows running on only 8MB RAM and never 
comes back.

eventually I get logged out for being inactive (nothing I can input) and 
then in 15 minutes (time set by my novell network to punish idle 
connectors) I can login again and everything is fine for a few days, 
maybe a week.

Sounds to be like some type of buffer is being kept and it is getting 
confused and rather than taking input it is giving output, but I don't 
really know.

Anyone have a guess as to what's going on?

I'm using a hayes-like modem with flow control. if that helps.

Thanks
Tjl
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From: [email-masked] (Bert Robbins)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:54:29 GMT

Timothy J. Luoma ([email-masked]) wrote:

: 1) using kermit, I connect to my school (Novell network), I login and 
: select, 'telnet' to get to my mail account at capitalist.princeton.edu

: 2) I begin to read my mail and news through pine.

: 3) at some point, usually while composing a message, something happens 
: (sorry, that's all I can say.  Nothing visisble hapens, but obviously 
: something is happening) and all of a sudden I lose the ability to type.

: that's not even the weird part.

: Whatever character/key I press, it starts printing out OLD keystrokes 
: from much earlier in the session (always from the same session).  I get 
: to see everything I typed, all over again, and when it finishes, it just 
: hangs there like a program in WinDows running on only 8MB RAM and never 
: comes back.

: eventually I get logged out for being inactive (nothing I can input) and 
: then in 15 minutes (time set by my novell network to punish idle 
: connectors) I can login again and everything is fine for a few days, 
: maybe a week.

: Sounds to be like some type of buffer is being kept and it is getting 
: confused and rather than taking input it is giving output, but I don't 
: really know.

: Anyone have a guess as to what's going on?

: I'm using a hayes-like modem with flow control. if that helps.

I can only think of two things.

1) Use hardware flow control, DSRCTS.

2) Do you have call wiating on your phone line? If you do then
   you should insert "*70" prior to the number you dial.

Bert