From: teg@orc.olivetti.com (Tom Griner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 386i bug Message-ID: <8811232002.AA19262@roma.orc.olivetti.com> Date: 3 Dec 88 17:59:37 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 88 12:02:03 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 35, message 6 of 18 We have a few Sun 386i/250's running diskless off of our 3/260 (custom local rc.boot's, ...) under SunOS 4.0.0. When powered on, the machine puts a bootup meter on the top of the screen. This stays there until you login (Sun's default 386i .login contains a "clear" command to remove to boot-bar). While trying to find an escape sequence that would re-enable the scrolling of the boot-bar area (and not have to clear the screen every time), I stumbled on a sequence that crashes the machine and fills the screen with garbage. If you make a file that contains (escape)[34L, then cat it the machine blows up. I doubt that this is caused by our local modifications. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Tom Griner teg@orc.olivetti.com