command line editing and line length problems with serial port

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 9:38 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:02 am, Dave Bruce wrote:
> > > I'm using busybox 1.00. I connect to the serial port of a TQM8260 via a
> > > "console management switch". I telnet to that.  I've also tried a
> > > direct serial connection with same results described below.
> >
> > Busybox currently has four command shells (1.3 should reduce that number
> > a bit).  Which one are you using?  Can you reproduce your problem with
> > one of the others?
>
> msh has this problem for sure, i just never got around to poking at it as
> clearing the screen worked fine for me ;)

But is the bug in the term program, in termios, or in vodz's old command line 
editing code?  I've had bash make lots of bad line drawing decisions over the 
past couple of years, and never figured out if it was the bash getline 
library or Konsole.

> -mike

Rob
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