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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Very smart terminaks
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 12:58:15 EDT
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> > While I'm at it, the terminal is also where history belongs...

> Also it's kind of nice when I display history not to see things like
>     21 man greengrocer^Uman 3 grd^Heen^Wsprintf

> I think there is just too much stuff here for even a smart terminal, or a
> PC to deal with, it has to understand the guts of too many OSes to be economicly
> feasible . . .

> 			    George Williams

The easy answer to this is to just make the terminal smart enough
to do command line editing locally, which is what IBM 3270s have
done (poorly, I admit) for years.  Local command-line editing and
history would be obvious features to build into Blit software--so
obvious that I'll bet somebody out there already has.  Any takers?


		Hal Peterson
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