carlson@betelgeuse (Richard L. Carlson) (02/08/89)
I've just pinned down something that's been bothering me about VT100.
I'm running it in interlace (48 lines), with 2 bit planes; and I have a
2400 baud modem.
Believe it or not, when the computer I'm connected to sends a continuous
stream of characters, I lose control of the Amiga! No key presses or
mouse movements are acknowledged. I have to wait either until the
mainframe takes a short break, or I turn off the modem. (At that time,
the keyboard and mouse events that have been stored up take effect.)
Needless to say, this is very annoying.
I am running VT100 V2.8 ACS 880117 (but the same thing happens in version
2.6). Has this problem been fixed in later versions of VT100? Has
anyone else even run into this problem? Can it be easily fixed without
seriously slowing things down? (moving some inner loop outside of
Forbid/Permit, perchance?)
Thanks for any ideas.
-- Richard
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carlson@ernie.berkeley.edudaves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) (02/11/89)
Richard, >Believe it or not, when the computer I'm connected to sends a continuous >stream of characters, I lose control of the Amiga! No key presses or >mouse movements are acknowledged. I have to wait either until the >mainframe takes a short break, or I turn off the modem. (At that time, >the keyboard and mouse events that have been stored up take effect.) >Needless to say, this is very annoying. Actually you might be looking at the wrong place for the problem. I've had the same thing happen. It was because the host I was connected to was not recognizing the break (^C ^D etc) All the stuff you typed in was in a buffer waiting until the previous command (listing etc) completes before going on. Check the configuration of the host your connected to. I hope this helps, I worked for me, (Of course you Ccould go get a brew until the darn thing is done with the listing! ;-) ) Dave S.
daves%hpcilzb.hp.com@cunyvm.cuny.edu (02/14/89)
Richard, >Believe it or not, when the computer I'm connected to sends a continuous >stream of characters, I lose control of the Amiga! No key presses or >mouse movements are acknowledged. I have to wait either until the >mainframe takes a short break, or I turn off the modem. (At that time, >the keyboard and mouse events that have been stored up take effect.) >Needless to say, this is very annoying. Actually you might be looking at the wrong place for the problem. I've had the same thing happen. It was because the host I was connected to was not recognizing the break (^C ^D etc) All the stuff you typed in was in a buffer waiting until the previous command (listing etc) completes before going on. Check the configuration of the host your connected to. I hope this helps, I worked for me, (Of course you Ccould go get a brew until the darn thing is done with the listing! ;-) ) Dave S.