filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> On 12/6/2010 6:55 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> > Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> > At about Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:30:05PM -0800,
> > Bob Rasmussen blabbed on about:
> >>
> >> If that is true, and IF filePro somehow displayed (output) that ctrl-S,
> >> then it is possible that this causes a problem with Anzio (and not
> >> with PuTTY).
> >
> > Is that actually possible? Hmmm... I thought the flow settings were
> > sent -to- the host to be acted upon at the tty level. I didn't know
> > that clients would obey them. I suppose it makes sense, if flow control
> > needs to be bidirectional...I just never thought of it in those terms...
> 
> Consider the case where the client is sending a long stream of
> characters, perhaps the way some terminals used to send all the data
> fields on the screen, and the host needs to say "hold up a sec while I
> process the input buffer".

Indeed.  But there's a problem here:

Wyse terminals (everything that had a Wyse60 emulation, I think it was)
*locked up hard* if you sent them a control-S; I found this out the
hard way, in circumstances a decade too old for me to remember it.
And I mean *hard*; you could not even get into setup mode until you
bounced the terminal.

Amusingly enough, the Link MC5, which was also Wy60 compatible *also 
locked up in this circumstance*; I was never able to determine what to
make of that.

Mark: see stty iflow and stty oflow, IIRC.

Cheers,
-- jra