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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <1099@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:30:10 GMT
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In article <130073@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:

>Besides, I also mentioned putting a small subset of termcap
>into the kernel. The tty driver will do the best it can
>with the information it has.

Wild guess: If CRT-terminals with cursor adressing capability were in
widespread use in the days Thompson and Ritchie started out with UNIX,
we would have lseek(2) (resp. seek(2)) defined for serial lines too.
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83