Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Gould computers Message-ID: <4759@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:39:07 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4759 Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:39:07 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:39:07 EST References: <6448@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <512@astrovax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 > 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. XON and XOFF *are* out-of-band. They are control characters, reserved for such signalling purposes, not data characters. Re-read the ASCII standards if you don't believe me. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry