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From: scc@jenny.UUCP (Stephen Crawley)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: tip "tandem" does not work (4.2bsd)
Message-ID: <266@jenny.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 10:15:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 10:15:24 1985
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In <8509160749.AA01327@utah-gr.ARPA> Spencer Thomas writes :-
>======
> You misunderstand TANDEM mode.  TANDEM has NOTHING to do with what the
> host does on receipt of ^S/^Q.  If TANDEM is set, the host will GENERATE
> ^S when its internal tty queue gets too full, and will GENERATE ^Q when
> the queue empties somewhat.  This is completely independent of ^S/^Q
> flow control received from the host.  You are correct that the host will
> not respond to ^S/^Q in RAW mode, but TANDEM works perfectly well in
> RAW.
>======

You are of course right, my explanation was incorrect.  However, the bug
fix is still (I believe) correct, and necessary if you are tipping over a
line which uses X-ON/X-OFF flow control.

-- Steve