Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!gatech!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs Subject: Re: 9600 baud problems (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!) Message-ID: <12964@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 17:25:17 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.12964 Posted: Fri Jun 26 17:25:17 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 10:42:52 EDT References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 8 Xref: mnetor comp.sources.d:904 comp.emacs:1275 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