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From: jje@pedsgd.UUCP (Jeremy Epstein)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs under flow control
Message-ID: <195@pedsgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 08:38:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 08:38:09 1985
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(The following is excerpted from a longer discussion):

> ...I don't know of any programs running under UNIX other than EMACS which
> assume that a user typing at a keyboard can send a ^S or ^Q to the program.
> (UUCP assumes an 8-bit raw datapath, but that's different.)  ...
> 
> 	Guy Harris

A number of applications programs such as spreadsheets, word processing
programs, etc. use ^S and ^Q.  These programs seem to come from PC
environments, where (I guess) ^S and ^Q don't have their usual meanings.

--Jeremy Epstein
Perkin-Elmer
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