Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.dcom Subject: Re: any harm in allowing only ctrl-Q to restart output? Message-ID: <6891@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 22:31:14 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6891 Posted: Tue Jan 1 22:31:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 03:45:48 EST References: <247@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11306 net.dcom:754 > I'd like to change UNIX to require ctrl-Q (actually t_startc) > to restart output. With our terminals, it can only improve things - > as it is, users have to know to press the NO SCROLL again (or hit > ctrl-Q explicitly). Is this likely to cause any problems anywhere > else? > > We're running v7 on a Perkin-Elmer 3220, by the way. The change is > trivial - commenting out two lines in /usr/sys/dev/tty.c. > > As an alternative, I'm thinking of creating a new ioctl setting > (TIOCQSTART?) which controls this behaviour, so it's user-settable. Instead of making yet another incompatible flavor of UNIX, how about implementing either the 4.?BSD "new tty" handler or the UNIX System ? tty handler. Both of these have fairly general control over STALL and RESUME characters.