kimbo (04/22/83)
Has anyone tried the following approach for a terminal emulator to
be used with Unix:
Buffer the incoming characters in a buffer that is many (~10) times
larger than the number of characters on the screen. Then do ^S/^Q
flow control if this buffer is in danger of overflowing.
The advantage I see to this approach is that screen editors would
not fill up this buffer, so no ^S/^Q's would be sent, but if you
cat'ed a file to the terminal, the buffer would not overflow.
Does this sound reasonable? Send replies by mail.
Kimbo B. Peebles-Mundy, NBI Inc.
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