Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!jje 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 Article-I.D.: pedsgd.195 Posted: Fri Jul 12 08:38:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:38:18 EDT References: <2899@cornell.UUCP> <466@bu-cs.UUCP> <490@tjalk.UUCP> <2404@sun.uucp> Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 15 (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 {decvax,ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!jje