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.
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