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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: CBREAK on SCO XENIX
Message-ID: <177@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 25 Jul 90 06:26:49 GMT
References: <1990Jul06.094023.21756@pemstgt.gtc.de> <269e591d-5c1.1comp.unix.xenix-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> <173@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> <192@xstor.UUCP>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <192@xstor.UUCP> iverson@xstor.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
>In article <173@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker) writes:
>>> [paraphrased] What's CBREAK?  What's the UNIX equivilant for it?
>>
>>CBREAK may be found but it is also unsupported :-).
>It's used mostly to unbuffer tty input so that programs can get a key as it
>is typed (e.g. rn, emacs, vi, jove, etc. all use cbreak mode or its
>equivilent).  Under Xenix, support for this is provided via the termio 
>library calls as follows (see the termio manual entry for details):

Or by comm programs :-)

CBREAK, however, doesn't work.  I must prefer termio to the cluster
of structures you need for BSD tty support, but if CBREAK worked, I
wouldn't have to 'modernize' progras I port, then keeping ifdefs
around to keep the BSD stuff working.

 
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