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From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,u3b.tech
Subject: Re: EPORTS & TB+
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Date: 30 Jul 90 14:52:04 GMT
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Greg A. Woods writes:
> 
> You can't
> even set HFC with an stty, rather you have to use epstty.  It was a
> really brain-dead, stupid thing to do, especially after almost every
> other vendor had used (usually the same) un-used bits in a termio flag
> to do the same.

The reason for this is that they wanted to keep the UNIX porting
base free from port-specific code.  Note that there are not that
many unused bits in the termio flag, and this is not the best way
to do it anyway.

I don't like the epstty approach either, but it's not "brain dead".

     Steve

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