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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: TTY, speak now, or forever
Message-ID: <254641C0.4960@ateng.com>
Date: 25 Oct 89 23:29:03 GMT
References: <216100015@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct24.011505.20515@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery):
>As quoted from <216100015@s.cs.uiuc.edu> by voss@s.cs.uiuc.edu:
>+---------------
>| I am just starting a small project to write a "tty" driver for a research
>| operating system.
>+---------------
>
>Consider starting with the System III/V setup instead.

Seconded.

>(3) Speaking of which:  kindly separate VMIN and VTIME from VEOF and VEOL.

And make all control characters optional.  As in, "stty intr none".
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