Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix Message-ID: <1991Apr9.112142.13195@robobar.co.uk> Date: 9 Apr 91 11:21:42 GMT References: <659@adpplz.UUCP> <15686@smoke.brl.mil> <659@rufus.UUCP> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 16 drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com writes: > In article <15686@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: > >UNIX has "always" supported type-ahead. > >I think what you are discussing is deferred echo. > > I think they are discussing deferred echo, too. As for why you have to have > it ... well, it would sure be nice to be able to type the next command > without ruining the appearance of the output of the current one! Can someone explain how Rob Pike's Plan 9 stuff does *both* echoing immediately *and* rearranging the display so that the output doesn't have its appearance ruined? Sounds like the best of both worlds to me .. -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)