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From: larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <LARRY.90Jul27114057@focsys.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 90 16:40:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rick@pcrat.uucp's message of 27 Jul 90 03:47:15 GMT


 > > > 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.

sh and csh are stupid, ksh does the right thing.