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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Resetting XON/XOFF on vt220's
Message-ID: <10433@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Jun 89 15:57:59 GMT
References: <64338@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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>In article <2196@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, support@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Academic Support) writes...
>>This allows them to use Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q for Emacs stuff.

That's a very bad idea.  Many terminals require flow control to work
properly, especially if there is a sequence of slow operations such as
line insert at a high baud rate.  Any reasonable EMACS implementation
allows you to rebind your search etc. keys (we use ASCII FS in place
of ^S) and supports DC3/DC1 flow control (which it should do simply by
not disabling flow control if it was set in the terminal handler flags).