Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Gould computers Message-ID: <186@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:39:06 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.186 Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:39:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 05:45:43 EST Sender: jrb@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-653200:wdl1:17100037:000:387 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Dec 12 12:52:00 1984 In a strict interpretation of the ASCII standard, all control characters belong to the line discipline, and there should be no CTRL key on terminals. There are terminals that work this way; Univac UNISCOPE polled terminals, for example. But they are very rare today. If XON-XOFF are to be considered out-of-band signals, means must exist to prevent their use as data characters.