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Article #1519What's wrong with flow control?
From: Jacob Gore
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1986 18:31
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1986 18:31
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In one of the installation documentation files for GNU Emacs, Richard Stallman
expresses his displeasure (to put it mildly) with the way DEC's terminals use
control-S and control-Q (XON/XOFF) for flow control. He says its a
"brain-damaged" design.
Could somebody tell me why that is the case? If that is the case? What would
be a better synchronization method? The only decent method I can think of
would use hardware handshaking...
Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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P.S. Sorry for posting this to two groups (comp.terminals and comp.emacs),
but Notes can't cross-post yet.
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