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Subject: Re: How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?
Message-ID: <459@bria>
Date: 17 Feb 91 23:42:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.214221.11464@gtisqr.uucp> <449@bria> <28768:Feb1714:55:3591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
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Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd (Dan Bernstein) writes:
|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.

True enough.  That's what I get for falling asleep at the wheel.
Sorry for any confusion.

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own.
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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