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From: markf@hpupnja.HP.COM (Mark Fresolone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: hp3000 mpe & terminals query...
Message-ID: <1520005@hpupnja.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 90 23:10:05 GMT
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Organization: HP Piscataway, NJ
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>Is there an easy way to have the 3000 terminal ports stop their use of
>the enq/ack (^E/^F) flow?  

My vague memory of this issue (as of about 4 years ago...) is that you can
only turn off ENQ/ACK (^E/^F), and turn on output-only XON/XOFF on an MPE
port set up for printing ...

>As a side note, is there a way to have "cu" automatically feed a ^F to
>the 3000 after receipt of a ^E?

... but the good news is, all HP-UX systems have a "-q" option to cu to allow
ENQ/ACK handshaking.  See cu(1) for other MPE features like ^Q prompting ...

>Dan.
Mark