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In article <pmacdon.720998015@husc10> pmacdon@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Macdonald) writes:
>	This may be a FAQ but here goes anyway.

Yes, it's a classic issue.
Many modern ASCII terminals require host support for DC3/DC1 flow control
in order to not overrun their input buffer while performing time-consuming
operations such as insert line, smooth scroll, etc.  The VT100 was the first
widely used terminal like this.
Unfortunately some of the EMACS hackers, Stallman for example, insisted
that terminals should not behave that way and consequently refused (at
least for a long time) to make their versions of EMACS properly support
DC3/DC1 in-band flow control.  For example, on most UNIX systems the user
(or system administrator) is supposed to arrange for DC3/DC1 flow control
to be handled by the operating system's terminal handler when the user
logs in -- subsequent processes like EMACS then should preserve that mode
when fiddling with the terminal handler settings for their particular
style of screen and keyboard management.  Unfortunately many such programs
do not do this right (and some UNIX systems didn't support doing it right).
I don't know which version of EMACS you have but there should be some way
to force it to work right, even if it means editing the source code.