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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <3779@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 18:06:40 GMT
References: <821@digi.lonestar.org> <3758@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Jul27.034715.1513@pcrat.uucp>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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.

I guess Venix must have modified the tty driver, then, because vanilla
S5 from AT&T, prior to S5R4, sure never stopped echoing your erase
character once it had run out of characters to erase.

Either that, or you're using "ksh" or some other shell that does the
line editing itself.