From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 15:58:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21119 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21114 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02902; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:56:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604172256.PAA02902@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:56:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 17, 96 03:13:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I had a question for the longest time. I notice on the console, > > > CTRL-O would work for things you are running locally but not on > > > telnet/rlogin connections but it does work when you connect from anywhere > > > else besides a FreeBSD machine, any ideas? Thanks! > > > > Consider 4.3 vs. 4.2 OOB data propagation and supported signals > > for the rlogin and telnet protocols in the RFC's. > > Hmmm, now why did every other CTRL combination work except for CTRL-O? > Isn't pine/pico developed on Ultrix which is BSD 4.3 based but they still > supported CTRL-O? Discard is a cannonical processing capability, not a transported (ie: capable of being sent out of band) signal. Only transported signals work like you want ^O to work... you need to get a faster link or reduce time between packet reception and output buffer flushing to make it work. It's not done by default because (a) it would slow down average throughput, and (b) no one but VMS/.TOPS-20 hold-overs use ^O. ;-). Alternately, you could reabstract the ^O implementation to make it into a signal... lotta work, that. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.