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From: msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VT100 R2.8 sent to the moderators
Message-ID: <173@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 09:02:03 GMT
References: <21770@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Lines: 17
Keywords: VT100 2.8 communications terminal

In article <21770@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) writes:
>I have just sent VT100 R2.8 to the moderators.  R2.9 is already in the
>works!  High on the list of new features is support of external transfer
>programs.  I have not yet decided how I intend to do this but am leaning
>toward a simple "suspend/restore" mechanism rather than elaborate use of
>pipes and/or I/O redirection, primarily in order to accomodate as many
>external programs as possible and not require them to be rewritten. 
.....

Be careful about how you do your "Suspend."  Some people have modems which
drop the carrier signal when the DTR is disabled.

	--Mike
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Michael S. Leibow
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