ac> Need -pNNN.  max -w n0 -b38400 -p1550 will freeze 
 ac> Max though.  The startup logo won't go away and you 
 ac> can only Ctrl+C out of it.  telnet localhost 1550 
 ac> gets a connection but that's it.
 
Hmm, I thought it defaulted to port 2000, but I could be wrong. :)
 
Very odd that it's freezing for you. I wonder if your version of curses
implements non-blocking reads improperly? If you can get a stack backtrace,
that should shed some light on the problem. Or better yet, a system call
trace (with user symbols from the ELF libs if your OS supports that).
 
As for the SF CVS -- yeah, I was having trouble last night myself. Grumble.
 
Wes

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