Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Gould computers Message-ID: <512@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 12:27:49 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.512 Posted: Sun Dec 9 12:27:49 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:16:03 EST References: <6448@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 15 > GAK! You shold not use DSR and DTR for flow control. DTR hangs up > comm gear and on my terminal at home, DSR dropping shuts down the > terminal. > > Maybe you mean RTS and CTS? It's still pretty disgusting. If it's > true, I think we better send our Gould back. > > -Ron Personally I think RTS and CTS flow control is less disgusting than XON and XOFF (I think XON, XOFF is disgusting). I think that flow control should have been done out-of-band whenever possible. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls