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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
Message-ID: <659@adpplz.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:59:02 GMT
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Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR
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In <7297@utacfd.UUCP> nomura@meap.uta.edu (S. Nomura) writes:

>I am accustomed to the type-ahead feature of the VAX/VMS.
>Is there any easy way to inplement this in unix ? Thank you.

Boy, are you running on the wrong OS. Our vendor is going to assist
us in re-programming the terminal controller so we can get decent
typeahead, NOBODY has had any other useful suggestions. It's 
worthwhile for us because we have lots of these things; otherwise
your choice is pretty much to suffer in silence.

Incomprehensible termio seems to be one of the techniques the gurus
use to keep those obnoxious users off their machines...


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