Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:04:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960417160159.2439u-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604172256.PAA02902@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > 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. Hmmm, okay... Isn't a 10GBps link fast enough? ;-) Someone on the list just mentioned to do stty discard undef and that seems to work but the stty manpage doesn't mention anything at what discard is. Richard
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