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Subject: Re: Networking query
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 01:47:57 EDT
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From: politik!paul@BERKELEY (Paul Vixie)

Yes, certainly, if the machine you are talking to suppports XON/XOFF, this
works pretty well.  Even then, however, the typeahead (or altypeahead) buf
can fill up before you get rescheduled to empty it; VMS sends ascii 07 (bell)
for every character that overfloweth (or a complex escape sequence to lock
your keyboard if DEVTYPE=VTxxx).  When I am linked to BSD, it likes to
echo ^G when it receives 07, and the ^G further overflows the buffer, so
more 07s are sent, which causes more ^Gs to be echoed... finally you pull
the plug or stop your process.  wery wery smart design for a typeahead buf.

I will try the unsolicited I-O.  I've already tried every combination of
READSYNCH, HOSTSYNC, and TTSYNCH.  Anything is worth a try.

		Paul Vixie