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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <9753@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 89 17:56:02 GMT
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In article <2333@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Special terminal ioctl's to turn echo on and off
>>(you wouldn't want half-duplex while typing a password), etc.

>No, you don't, but you don't want to have to rewrite programs that use
>the boring old standard "ioctl"s, either; the driver should simply
>recognize TIOCSETP, or TCSETA, or whatever your system has, setting or
>clearing the ECHO flag...

It does.
The "mux" terminal interface program does indeed turn the boring old standard
ioctls into the special terminal-ioctls that tell the 5620 to stop
echoing stuff. The programs on the Unix side don't notice any difference.
Mux takes care of everything.

Paul.
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