Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!sgi!jmb@patton.sgi.com From: jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: HELP: Low level terminal I/O Message-ID: <39380@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 2 Aug 89 15:20:17 GMT References: <8908011000.aa22873@VMB.BRL.MIL> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 17 In article <8908011000.aa22873@VMB.BRL.MIL>, moss@BRL.MIL ("Gary S. Moss", VLD/VMB) writes: > [Jim Barton writes] ... > I don't believe that this is portable, except on System V based machines. > It will work on some BSD-based systems, but not all, especially older > implementations. For example, here is an excerpt from the termio(4V) manual > page on my Sun (Release 3.2): ... > -moss Sorry, I meant portable to other System V machines. Of course this is nonsense on non-conforming implementations. Bezerkely has better ways to do this, and IRIX has picked those up. -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computer Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb