Newsgroups: comp.terminals Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Looking for a full-featured terminal Message-ID: <1988Jul11.013646.458@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <758@lakesys.UUCP> <3249@encore.UUCP>, <1683@teemc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 01:36:46 GMT >The newer Televideos are also nice, but the lastest models I've seen >(905, 955) still inflict the user with magic cookie characters for >screen attributes... A more subtle botch in their last generation of terminals (I haven't seen specs on the latest ones) is that ^N and ^O made the terminal change *handshaking modes*!!! (That is, from XON/XOFF to CTS/RTS and such.) This is an awful blunder, not just contrary to the ASCII standard but also quite likely to bite users, since a mistake like catting a binary or a directory has a high probability of sending any single character. -- Anyone who buys Wisconsin cheese is| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology a traitor to mankind. --Pournelle |uunet!mnetor!utzoo! henry @zoo.toronto.edu