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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.034715.1513@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 90 03:47:15 GMT
References: <821@digi.lonestar.org> <3758@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <3758@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>  3) Is there tty driver that knows not to allow you to backspace past the

>Yes, the S5R4 one knows not to backspace past the prompt.  Dunno if
>anything like that is available for S5R3 on the 386....

Funny, I read my news on a 286 running Venix/286 (SVR2), and the tty
driver in this OS won't backspace over the prompt.  I guess I never
noticed that SVR3 didn't have this feature.

-Rick
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