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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 21:38:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 29 21:38:44 1987
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In article <12964@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>   I always figured NUL was a bigger problem.
> Some terminals/systems just don't send or pass NUL, or it means something
> atrocious like END-OF-FILE.

On some systems the 'DEL' character is even more of a problem.  Some
of the older computer systems send 'DEL' characters to compensate
for the slow teletype style printers used as terminals.  The original
meaning of DEL dates back to the teletype baudat days when it meant:
'ignore this character'.  Unfortunately some VT100 styled machines
took it to mean 'delete character'.

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> -Ron