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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:39:07 1984
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> 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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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