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From: ckclark@athena.mit.edu (Calvin Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tty 8-bit output
Keywords: ioctl tty stty
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.175816.12228@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:58:16 GMT
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Ok, I give up.  I am using the "new" Berkeley tty driver,
as described in tty(4).  It is reasonably easy to get it
to accept eight-bit input, by using 'stty pass8' or by
setting the ioctl correctly.  However, it seems that if
it is set in a mode which does *any* output processing
at all, (i.e., anything but 'raw' or 'litout'), it 
will strip the eighth bit off of the output characters.
It makes no difference what the parity is.  The tty 
driver seems totally incapable of doing output processing
without stripping off the eighth bit.

My questions:

(1) Am I correct in this assement?
(2) Is there a good alternate tty driver available
    (besides atty)?
(3) Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help.
-Calvin
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