I just wish there was a way to enable breaks from console.
By "enable breaks" do you mean the "BREAK causes the OS to jump to the PROM monitor" stuff that SunOS (including 5.x) does?
We don't detect BREAK or respond to it, but there's probably no reason we couldn't do that.
ARGGG! NO! NO! NO! Disaster waiting to happen. A failed terminal, or one that is turned off or has its power line unplugged generates a BREAK -well strictly speaking it's not really a BREAK but most implimentations of UART see it as a break. This used to happen to our Admin folks every once in a while with their SUN. Remember the users with their torches and pitchforks.
I don't know if our serial port is set up so that unplugging a terminal (or terminal server) and plugging it back in looks like a BREAK; that's one of the suckages on at least some Suns.
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