From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!stewart
Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.misc
Title: Re: How long is a break `character"\\\\\\\\?
Article-I.D.: seismo.138
Posted: Tue Sep 21 21:13:16 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 04:45:36 1982
References: decvax.286 mcnc.1308 ariel.113

The problem was getty reading one break as two.  Make sure that getty
on the machine you're calling sleeps for a second and then flushes
the tty input.  (I seem to recall someone proposing that the sleep  be
eliminated.)
	John Stewart