Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!greg From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA Keyboard Buffer Message-ID: <3246@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 Apr 88 06:16:16 GMT References: <3194@gryphon.CTS.COM> <8458@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 36 Summary: bilbo's host speaks In article <8458@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> doug@eris.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >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.) > As it happens, this is a good supposition. The specific solution is to fall asleep while pressing on DEL. After enough DELs are received, the nasty old bits will stop flowing. Note this is a system specific solution that applies to the system on which Bill reads the news. >>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 No. The person emailing was not in error. There are over 50 Amiga users on the BBS that Bill is using, including the emailer. This question could have been easily dispatched locally without bothering the net at all by posting it to the LOCAL Amiga group first. I would guess from reading the justifications for creating the .tech group that if you're not prepared to pull out your C compiler or assembler to act on the response to a question, that the question is not "technical" within the meaning of the group. -- Greg Laskin greg@gryphon.CTS.COM !gryphon!greg