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From: donn@milton.acs.washington.edu (Donn Cave)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: flow control
Message-ID: <1117@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 05:49:36 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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I just put up bash 1.04 on several BSD mini/mainframes here, and it looks
good.  There was one thing I felt I had to do, however - Richard Stallman,
don't read this - I turned flow control back on.

(Specifically, I commented out about 6 lines in readline.c, starting
 with /temp.t_stopc = -1;/.)

It fixed some pretty serious problems with regular terminals, hooked up
on various configurations of RS232 and Ethernet, which basically couldn't
reliably handle the heavy line-editing load on something like autorepeating
\C-p.  It may also have fixed a problem I've had where, somewhere along the
road, things get into a fix where small one-line bursts of output, e.g.
from pwd, wouldn't get to the screen.

Other than the loss of two editing control characters, does anyone see a
down side to this?

			Donn Cave	UCS Software, University of Washington
			donn@milton.u.washington.edu