Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!sean
From: sean@geac.UUCP (Sean Phelan)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Resetting XON/XOFF on vt220's
Message-ID: <7519@geac.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 15:41:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.7519
References: <64338@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@geac.UUCP (Sean Phelan)
Organization: Geac Computers, Markham, Ontario Canada
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In article <64338@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter) writes:
>In article <2196@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, support@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Academic Support) writes...
>>Does anyone know if it's possible to reset the flow control on a
>>vt220 terminal via some control sequence? 
>>....
>>What I'd like to do is have the students' initialization file reset the
>>flow control to XON/XOFF, thus reducing the hysteria of novice users
>>...
>
>Can't be done.
>							-- Jerry

Well, it can be done, but not in isolation.  Why not just send a DECSTR
"Soft terminal reset" sequence ( CSI ! p ) thereby restoring the power-on
settings of the terminal ?  For a really rock-solid solution, start your
initialisation with RIS, "Hard terminal reset", which is ESC c.  Only
problem with that is the 1-2 second pause while the terminal does a
self-test.

Cheers,

Sean
-- 
Sean Phelan                                   | "Education furnishes the mind,
Geac Computer, Markham, Ontario               |  making it a pleasant place to
sean@geac                                     |  spend the rest of one's life"
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