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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Defence against a VT100 Maculator slur...
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Date: 1 Jul 88 19:13:44 GMT
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In article <3601@csvax.liv.ac.uk> sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
(In article <46100170@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
(
(>I am new to this mac world.  I downloaded the VT100 emulator posted
(>on this net a while ago and I tried it at home.  It seemed no problem
(>until I ran emacs.  My screen was completely garbaged after I started
(>the emacs.
(
(I assume you are talking about my terminal emulator ("VT100 Maculator") -
(you don't mention any names though...! I must confess to have never used
(emacs (although I have played with a variant called 'Jove' which was pretty
(awful). It all depends on what escape sequences emacs sends - try switching
 . . .
(> it sounds like the emulator that you are using can not handle the character
(> influx.
(
(I strenuously deny this ! My emulator works fine at 9600 baud with XON/XOFF
(active. It will support up to 57600 baud and has done so when talking to my
(Amiga...

All the versions of EMACS I have used on host computer systems do not
like XOFF/XON; they actually use ^S and ^Q as command characters and
try to fix slow the output to the screen by padding with invisible
characters (which, needless to say, does not help the problem of a
slow character handler) or maybe in some cases by actually pausing to
let the screen catch up.  This kind of behavior can be really painful,
of course.  An emulator which is fast enough for EMACS really has to
be fast enough without flow control; and the combinations of the
various EMACS (Ultrix, Sun, TOPS-20) with the Mac VT100 emulator I use
work fine.

	/JBL


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