Stan and I were having an offline discussion about the ctrl-X problem.  He
checked in and reported back:

> It seems it happens to him with Minisoft NSVT, but not Reflection
> NSVT, which would appear to rule out an HP 3000 configuration item.

It's a weird one all right.  I've confirmed that the HP is truly receiving a
control-X (ascii 24), but simply isn't dealing with it as a cancel character.
The problem doesn't show up under QCTerm or a normal VT100 terminal emulator
(Tera Term) telnetted to the HP.  I don't know what Minisoft did, but it was
a pretty good trick!

<long pause for some sniffing (packets, not glue :-)>

Hmmmm . . . here's a possibility.  At least in certain situations, when I type
ctrl-Y in WS92, it transmits a packet immediately (it doesn't seem to,
interestingly enough at the CI prompt), but not so with ctrl-X.  That is not
transmitted until I press return.  Thus the HP receives the ^X and the return
in one packet and doesn't deal with the ^X as it would with a naked ^X.
Reflection, I expect, transmits all control characters immediately in all
contexts (or some such).  Can anyone out there confirm this?  If so, is there
a Minisoft person on the list who could speak briefly to what it would take to
get this fixed?

Ted
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