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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: ATT 3b2 (SVR2) questions
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:54:25 EDT
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> ....and the addition of
> SWTCH for c_cc[7] (for shl) makes hash of the rather sensible idea of
> using c_cc[6,7] for VMIN and VTIME.

If the sharing of c_cc[6,7] was a kludge, the introduction of SWTCH
was a botch.  "shl" has so many problems that it is not worth it,
particularly in light of the existence of a better, inexpensive
alternative (5620 DMD).  What we need are FEWER out-of-band tty
characters, not more!