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. {allegra,ucbvax}!nbires!kimbo