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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about terminal input buffering
Message-ID: <5960@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 18:23:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.225929.4447@jwt.UUCP> <15154@smoke.brl.mil>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >The behavior when more than a certain amount of canonical tty input is
 >buffered up without a new-line is documented in your UNIX Programmer's
 >Reference Manual or Adminstrator's Reference Manual.  The behavior
 >varies across different UNIX implementations.  One typical one is to
 >just beep and discard everything typed to that point.

I've never seen that one.  I have seen the "traditional" UNIX behavior
of silently discarding everything typed to that point, and the "modern"
UNIX behavior (lifted from various DEC operating systems by Berkeley; it
appears in S5R4 as well) of beeping and discarding the character typed
but leaving the rest of the data in the line intact.