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