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From: DSullivan@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 07:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 07:37:00 1984
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Subject:  Re:  VT100 and bagbiting

The real problems is "ANSI" computer terminals don't support the FULL
protocall.  There is a defined character (Data Link Escape or ^P) that
whos meaning is "the next character is to lose its meaning".  If all
ANSI terminal generated this character before all USER generated control
sequences then the whole problems disapears for ANSI terminal in that
^S/^Q flow would be unadorned but the user typed ^S would be transmitted
as ^P^S.  What you have here is the clasic case of Hardware is deficient
so the Software has to compensate.