C-Kermit Problem Caused by vt100 XON/XOFF Enabled

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Sun Jan 12 03:20:00 AEST 1986


Aargh!  PLEASE, all software developers: NEVER make ^S or ^Q
a user-typed command!  Far too many terminals usurp these
ASCII codes (DC3/DC1, aka XOFF/XON) for use as hardware flow
control.  One would think the word had gotten out by now...



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