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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 17:25:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 17:25:17 1987
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It was never an issue before VT100's came out.  EMACS predates this by
quite a bit.  XON and XOFF were easily ignored as signals except when
you were doing interesting things like downloads which you didn't use
EMACS for.  I'm always amazed.  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.

-Ron