Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!daemon From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Cancelling XOFF Message-ID: <9747@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 20:56:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9747 Posted: Wed Aug 7 20:56:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:13:44 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 24 From: munnari!metro.oz!jimr@seismo.CSS.GOV [ If this line is missing you'll know the line eater still lives. ] Does anyone know a way of cancelling CTRL/S on a terminal line other than typing a CTRL/Q? Our students tend to hit CTRL/S unknowingly, wonder why the terminal hangs, and leave. I can tell that this has happened because by evening the process is still there and SHOW DEVICE indicates many errors on the line, and sometimes a timeout as well. I stop the process, but the only way I know of cancelling the CTRL/S is to locate the terminal in the laboratory (a time-consuming business) and give it a CTRL/Q. A worse problem occurs with the network which connects some of our terminals to the VAX: it sometimes sends a CTRL/S to the host then cannot easily be persuaded to send a CTRL/Q. I have tried SET TERM/HANGUP, and SET TERM/NOTTSYNC then /TTSYNC again, to no avail. We cannot disable TTSYNC permanently, because the knowledgeable users need it. We are running VMS V4.1 on a 780, with DZ-11s and Able VMZ32Ns.