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From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich)
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Subject: Re: How do you tell users to press RETURN every so often?
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 00:26:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 00:26:23 1983
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	What wonders me in this discussion (though I appreciate the replies
	that suggest to read everything is CBREAK mode), is that no one
	came up with the answer `suggest a TYPEWRITER as model'.  Surely
	this kind of apparatus and its use are known to most people, and
	surely on a typewriter you have to watch out for the end of the line!

I admire this cogent and meritorious suggestion, yet I find it
unsettling:  I can't remember the last time I actually *used* a real
paper-and-platen typewriter!  I cannot count the nearby Diablo which we
use for "letter-quality" output, as no human ever uses its keyboard.  I
imagine there are children who have logged many hours on a glass tty
but who have *never* used a real typewriter!  The increasing-common
feature of automatic break at end-of-line might render this suggestion
absolutely opaque.

So why does it bother me?

Steve Haflich