denniss@tektronix.UUCP (Dennis Smith) (02/13/84)
I am currently using an IBM PC with a VT100 emulator from Persoft (SmarTerm/PC TE100-FT) on 4.1bsd running cmu-emacs. I am having troubles with some mlisp programs that use 'get-tty-char' when I have the TE100 handshaking enabled. One of the mlisp programs I would like to run is 'newspell' that was posted to the net last May by burdvax!puder (Karl Puder). When handshaking (flow control) is enabled, newspell exits before any of the misspelled words are processed. When handshaking is disabled, everything functions as advertised. Does anyone know of any way to have get-tty-char swallow the flow control characters? (I don't have access to the emacs source.) It seems as if all the flow control characters are causing some buffer to overflow, which aborts whatever action is being called for. It's kind of a bother to have to use the emulator with flow control disabled. Some of the programs I run require flow control. Any help will be appreciated. Dennis Smith Tektronix denniss@tektronix