Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd
From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?
Message-ID: <28768:Feb1714:55:3591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 14:55:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.214221.11464@gtisqr.uucp> <449@bria>
Organization: IR
Lines: 15

In article <449@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
> In an article, gtisqr.uucp!roger (Roger Droz) writes:
> >How about simply:
> >	stty="stty `stty -g`"
> This won't work, because the ``stty -g'' will simply set the terminal to what
> it was already set to.

Double-quotes force immediate ` and $ interpretation.

> You need to preserve the terminal state _prior_ to
> it going insane.

He is.

---Dan