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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.dcom
Subject: Re: any harm in allowing only ctrl-Q to restart output?
Message-ID: <270@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:58:04 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.270
Posted: Tue Jan  8 11:58:04 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:55:02 EST
References: <247@lsuc.UUCP> <104@redwood.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman|Law Society of Upper Canada|Toronto)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <104@redwood.UUCP> rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes:
||    The only thing you want to make sure of
|| is that even if output is stopped, the interrupt and quit functions must
|| turn it back on (when the terminal is not in "raw" mode). Otherwise, you
|| can confuse and frustrate the user, who hit XOFF to stop the action, and now
|| can't get his/her shell back! (Breaking the <DEL> key... <DEL> <DEL>...)
|| An XON gets a string of prompts which have been stacked up, leading to
|| more confusion. (Certain versions had that problem, and it hurt.)

Turning output back on isn't enough, though. With these terminals,
if you've hit the NO SCROL key, and then you hit DEL to interrupt,
if UNIX turns on the text again you still won't see anything until
you press NO SCROL again.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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