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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
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 12:27:49 1984
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> 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
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