[comp.sys.dec] Flow control on Microvax II doesn't work

barry@cavevax.ucsb.edu (Barry Brown) (11/18/89)

The computer I'm using (a DEC AI Vaxstation, supposedly the same as a Microvax
II) has a flow control problem:  it doesn't work.  At all.
  I normally use a modem at 2400 bps to access the computer, which means
output is thrown into a buffer.  The problem is painfully apparent when long
output is being generated.  I cannot pause or stop the text from srolling by.
Since this computer runs a BBS in cbreak mode, it's really easy to hit a wrong
key and have to sit through 150 messages.  This problem is global in scale; it
affects everyone who uses the computer.
  I've looked through the manuals for stty, ioctl, tset, etc., etc.  Nothing
seems to offer any help.  Is there some easy setting to adjust?
  Admittedly, not all of Unix's support programs are here.  The one program we
need may be missing.  But what is it?
  We're running BSD 4.3.
  It's really important that we get this fixed since more and more users are
complaining.
 
  Thanks in advance!

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