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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X-off and A-Talk "feature"
Message-ID: <405@antares.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 02:42:30 GMT
References: <382@antares.UUCP> <952@cs.rit.edu>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <952@cs.rit.edu: msl5864%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (Michael S. Leibow) writes:
:In article <382@antares.UUCP: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
:: Well, I still think Marco writes a good Comm program, but I have found
::a "feature" (not a bug exactly, but it sure bit like one). The problem has
::to do with how you deal with the receipt of a stray x-off (control-s)
::character. I found out (when I received a stray x-off) that your program
::ceases output.
:
:	What's wrong with that?

The problem Phil mentions occurs when line noise looks like an XOFF and your
keyboard goes dead for no apparent reason.  At least the real VT100 terminal
made it so you could do something about it.  It would turn on the KEYBOARD
LOCKED light so you could detect the problems, and you could cancel the
"I saw an XOFF" flag by simply hitting the SETUP key twice.  It sounds like
A-Talk does not have a well documented equivalent of this function.
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