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From: d2c-mt@luth2.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with flow control?
Message-ID: <330@luth2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 07:06:32 EST
Article-I.D.: luth2.330
Posted: Sun Nov 30 07:06:32 1986
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Reply-To: d2c-mt@luth2.UUCP (Mikko Ty|l{j{rvi)
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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In article <3910001@nucsrl.UUCP> gore@nucsrl.UUCP writes:
>In one of the installation documentation files for GNU Emacs, Richard Stallman
>expresses his displeasure (to put it mildly) with the way DEC's terminals use
>control-S and control-Q (XON/XOFF) for flow control.  He says its a
>"brain-damaged" design.
>
>Could somebody tell me why that is the case?  

We had this problem with our vt100-compatibles:
Whenever the terminal couldn't catch up with the computer, like when 
deleting a large area of the text on the screen, it would report some
errors and then start up again with the emacs saying:
 I-search: ^Q 

Now the terminals have a 2 kB buffer memory, so that's no problem any more.
But, for a time, it was rather annoying.
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