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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tty 8-bit output
Message-ID: <5506@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 21:33:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.175816.12228@athena.mit.edu> <14960@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>There was a bug in the BSD tty handler that made it hard to get 8-bit
>raw data through the handler.

Hard*er*.  The bug to which you're referring (fixed in 4.3BSD) kept even
"litout" from setting the hardware into 8-bits-no-parity mode; however,
even with the bug fixed, there's no way to tell the pre-4.3-reno BSD tty
driver not to strip output characters to 8 bits *before* handing them to
the hardware, unless you turn "raw" or "litout" mode on; I assume the
original poster didn't want to do that.