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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: POSIX termio.h or termios.h
Summary: EPS' soapbox
Message-ID: <1697@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 91 02:26:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.173421.13278@riacs.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun10.173421.13278@riacs.edu> woo@arc.nasa.gov
	(Alex Woo x6010 227-6 rm 315) writes:
>I assume that there is a substitute struct for termio available.

NO!

Once upon a time, there were two distinct (and incompatible)
paradigms for tty ioctls; the "old" ("sgtty" or "TIOC") way,
and the "new" ("termio" or "TC") way that turned up somewhere
around UNIX System III.  Then the POSIX SOBs (may they burn
in Hell forever) decided to invent yet a third "standard"
(I'm absolutely convinced their entire purpose is to destroy
UNIX, not to "improve" it) called termios.

NeXT does things the "old" BSD 4.3-compatible way.  Don't
bother looking for termio or termios, they're NOT there.
There are definitely some good points to termio, but termios
is a total crock...

If the code doesn't have conditionals for different tty
drivers, you have a lot of work ahead.

					-=EPS=-
-- 
POS is variously interpreted as "Piece Of Sh*t" or "Pile Of Sh*t"
The -IX suffix means "like UNIX, only halfwitted" (e.g. XENIX, ULTRIX)