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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Type-ahead in unix
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Date: 19 Apr 91 06:27:22 GMT
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In article <4497@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <-Q=_Y$_@warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>>On a constructive note, I used to quite like the Burroughs MCP/CANDE approach
>>of holding up output while you were half-way through an input line
>This can be a pain if you've inadvertently typed something - you're
>left wondering where the output's gone.

Multics also has this option in its tty driver (actually, it's implemented
in the front-end, so it doesn't work for pty's and network terminals, or
when you're doing character-at-a-time I/O).  It includes a timeout, so
accidentally hitting a key doesn't stop output forever.

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