FW: PLUG: OT: AD\/:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged *nixpeople

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:42:40 -0800):
[...]
> Scripsit for the Model 16/6000 Xenix machines was a very
> different beast than the TRSDOS version, and, IHMO, not as easy
> to use since it had to run on dumb terminals as opposed to a
> single user machine with memory mapped video and no issues with
> serial communications (it used ctrl-s for something which would
> stop a serial line dead in its tracks :-).
[...]

Then there was the printer (I forget the make/model) which would freeze
up a terminal when hung off the terminal's local printer port, because
it used Ctrl-S for the "underline on" code.

Of course, this was reported to us as a filePro bug.  ("filePro keeps
hanging when I run this report.")


P.S.  Is there a reason the subject of this thread uses backslash-slash
rather than capital-V?

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