Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site jenny.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!kcl-cs!jenny!scc 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 Article-I.D.: jenny.266 Posted: Thu Sep 19 10:15:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:06:34 EDT Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 16 Xpath: kcl-cs west44 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