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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA Keyboard Buffer
Message-ID: <8458@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 8 Apr 88 07:36:26 GMT
References: <3194@gryphon.CTS.COM>
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Reply-To: doug@eris.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
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Summary: Probably have misidentified problem

In article <3194@gryphon.CTS.COM> bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) writes:
>If I doze off while reading some of these exciting posts and wake up only to
>find my finger pushing down the spacebar I have successfully loaded up the
>Amiga's keyboard locally and can't stop the bit stream (until all the spaces
>in the buffer are used up).  This has happened twice and I have hung-up twice

My guess is that the problem has nothing to do with your Amiga, but
rather is a symptom of what your host is doing with all of the spaces
that it has received. You need to be able to tell it "whoa! flush your
input buffer! Interrupt! Ignore!"  With the right operating system,
and with the right news software, ^C will accomplish this. Otherwise,
too bad. (I.e. maybe hanging up is the *only* answer! Check with a local
guru who knows your host system.)

>I tried posting this question on Amiga/Tech but the only response was Email
>that the question didn't belong there but rather here.

Since you phrased it as a technical question about flushing the keyboard
buffer, clearly the person emailing you was in error...personally I
thought it was quite appropriate, as phrased. Your current message
is aimed more at the problem itself, and less on your proposed solution,
and so I think comp.sys.amiga happens to be the right place for *it*,
since apparently the problem (and solution) aren't technical issues.

Furthermore, someone *did* post a technical response to your question
in comp.sys.amiga.tech (which argues for some patience in waiting).

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
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