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From: njd@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (nick.j.dimasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: INFO-ATARI8 Digest V90 #38
Message-ID: <13806@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 00:10:18 GMT
References: <900325050948.087234@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Reply-To: njd@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (nick.j.dimasi,ix,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <900325050948.087234@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> JHSangster@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>OmniCom (in response to someone's question, I missed the name, sorry)
> .....
>bits of information.  You can halt the screen with X-OFF or the CTRL-1
>(or the HELP key on OMNIVIEW equipped machines) and then press SELECT
>and OPTION and the screen is dumped to the printer.

One little problem I ran into with using X-OFF (^S) at 2400bps is, that
OmniCom can't keep up with incoming chars. at that speed, so it sends
its own ^S/^Q to keep from overflowing its buffer.  When I hit ^S,  by the
time the host machine (usually a BBS in my case) responds, OmniCom's ^S and
^Q are sent and my "pause" is undone.  (At least this is what I believe is
happening.) This was no problem once I tried using HELP (on my XE w/OMNIVIEW);
OmniCom "sees" that I have paused screen output and handles flow control with 
the host.  This is the only terminal program I use on my 8-bit, and I have 
no reason to switch!

Nick DiMasi				Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc.
nick@udt386.chi.il.us 
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