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From: lewis@tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR)
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Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.162447.27455@colorado.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 16:24:47 GMT
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In article <3251@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>In article <5930@tahoe.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
....stuff omitted
>
>The answer to the original question is: no VMS style type-ahead can not be
>implement given the current set of tools.

My version of the korn shell (from Aspen Technologies) does both immediate
and delayed echo.