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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: What's wrong with flow control?
Message-ID: <3660001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 13:31:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 25 13:31:39 1986
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Organization: Northwestern Univ., Evanston IL
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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?  If that is the case?  What would
be a better synchronization method?  The only decent method I can think of
would use hardware handshaking...

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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P.S.  Sorry for posting this to two groups (comp.terminals and comp.emacs),
but Notes can't cross-post yet.