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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <1979@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 04:13:20 GMT
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Reply-To: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
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>  3) Is there tty driver that knows not to allow you to backspace past the
>     prompt

Replacing the shell with the Korn shell fixes that problem, too.  All the 
various ksh implementations (uport 286/386, MKS 286/386) I've used have an
"indestructable" prompt.
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)