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From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs under flow control
Message-ID: <245@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 01:34:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 01:34:57 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 07:36:17 EDT
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Reply-To: sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty sasaki)
Organization: Harvard Science Center
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Summary: 

The news on the Sytek Localnet isn't all bad. You can specify an
arbitrary pair of characters instead of xon and xoff for flow
control. If you are fortunate enough to have a terminal like the Ann
Arbor Ambassador, you can even change it's flow control characters,
and if you are running on UNIX you can tell UNIX about your new flow
control characters.

If you had a terminal that would let you turn xon/xoff flow control
on and off via an escape sequence, then you could modify EMACS to
turn flow control off when it starts up, and turn it back on when you
finish. Your only problem would be to get a termcap entry with enough
padding.

There is also EIA flow control, but that requires smart MUX boards
and more wires in your terminal cables.

I unfortunately have a vt102 which can't do anything that I want in
this regard and have to use VMS systems which can't remap any
character functions.
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