dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) (08/01/88)
In article <465@vector.UUCP>, CABELL.ANDREWS@BIONET-20.ARPA (Paul Andrews) writes: > > I have a question regarding the use of TELENET versus COMPUSERVE. > When using TELENET, I always see two certain characters echoed back to me , > especially when I am typing fast. These are ASCII characters 17 and 19 ( I > can't reproduce them here, but you can look them up in an IBM extended > character set)... These characters are generally called X-ON and X-OFF or DC1 and DC3. On most ASCII keyboards, they are represented by ^S and ^Q. When you receive the X-OFF character, the receiver is telling you to stop sending. It will send you the X-ON when it is again ready to receive data. Most systems allow you to pause their output by sending them the X-OFF (^S) character, and to resume by sending them the X-ON (^Q) character. -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave