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From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: flow control on TB+ (was: Re: TMN-netnews update)
Message-ID: <1RKB8r#2MvBk2=eric@snark.uu.net>
Date: 2 May 89 15:34:47 GMT
References: <1RH0R8#4BF6fX=eric@snark.uu.net> <1989Apr29.224526.22914@utzoo.uucp> <163@sopwith.uucp>
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In <163@sopwith.uucp> Snoopy wrote:
> In article <1989Apr29.224526.22914@utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer wrote:
> |In article <1RH0R8#4BF6fX=eric@snark.uu.net> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> |Aha, a chance to catch Eric in an error! :-)  The uucp-spoofing mode in the
> |Trailblazer, when it kicks in, shuts XON/XOFF off, so there is no conflict.
> 
> Aha, a chance to catch Henry in an error!  :-)    (rare indeed!)  The
> uucp-spoofing only works using PEP, so if you have low-speed uucp connections
> with XON/XOFF enabled they will die.

Actually, we may *both* be wrong. Rick Adams and others claim that low-speed
UUCP via the 'Blazer works fine with no handshaking at all!
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