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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs. SVR4 typehead flush after tty mode change
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Date: 5 Oct 90 03:12:52 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.213623.27362@smsc.sony.com>
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In article <1990Oct4.213623.27362@smsc.sony.com>, dce@smsc.sony.com
(David Elliott) writes:
> I execute the following command line:
> 
> 	sleep 5 ; cat /etc/passwd | more > /dev/null
> 
> While the sleep is still running, I type "date" (followed
> by RETURN) 3 times.
> 
> Under BSD, I get 3 date commands run.  Under RISC/OS on a MIPS M2000,
> the same happens.  Under our SVR4 system, I get nothing -- the input
> has disappeared.
> 

I just tried this on my V.4 system, and I get three date commands run, as 
you would expect.  I think you must have something wrong on your particular
version of V.4, or maybe the shell you're running.

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