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From: chet@thor.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: POSIX termio.h or termios.h
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In article <1697@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:

>There are definitely some good points to termio, but termios
>is a total crock...

I'm curious.  What are the good points of termio that termios omits?
It seems to me that termios is much cleaner than the old BSD mechanism,
and is a superset of termio that solves things like the stupid
VEOF/VMIN and VEOL/VTIME overloading.  All the BSD functionality is
there.

Chet
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