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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
Message-ID: <15844@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 91 01:25:12 GMT
References: <15783@smoke.brl.mil> <15784@smoke.brl.mil> <4467@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <4467@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <15784@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I forgot to mention that this also moves the insertion point to just
>>after the newline.
>Presumably this happens when the process reads the line, rather than when 
>the newline is inserted?

That I don't recall, but my guess would be not, since the interface has no
idea when the input data will actually be consumed by a process on the host.

In an independent reimplementation of the basic notion, you could opt to
do this whatever way seems suitable.  Let us know how it turns out.