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From: tjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Holodnik)
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Subject: Re: Troubles with NCSA Telnet 2.1
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Date: 16 Jul 88 21:16:34 GMT
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Mark Frost writes:

"Our problem is this: Control Characters (specifically the most often used ones
like ^C, ^S and ^Q) don't seem to work. Well, actually they sort of work. If I
see a lot of text streaming across the screen and I hit ^S to halt the flow or
even ^C to interrupt, nothing happens until at least 4 or 5 more screensfullof
text go by and then MAYBE ^S or ^C will take effect."

        My guess is that it's not the version of telnet from NCSA at fault;
this behavior is true for most (if not all) varieties of telnet clients, and
pttys on Unix. This would have to do with how well OOB (out of band) signal
handling is performed, I think. Some do it well, others do not.

        This doesn't help you much, I know. The answer is that there isn't a
good answer, apart from using "more" on your Unix machine.

Tom