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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Shells, features and interaction
Message-ID: <604@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 00:52:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 00:52:57 1985
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References: <4575@alice.UUCP> <1631@glacier.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T, Computer Systems Division, Skokie, IL
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In article <1631@glacier.ARPA>, conor@glacier.ARPA (Conor Rafferty) writes:
>
>Admittedly this may not work the way I expect because most people on
>alice can probably do blit-hacking on the command line. But on a dumb
>terminal, I'll trade you 60kb for history and command-editing any time.
>I'd even go so far as to put line editing in the tty driver, canonical
>mode. [There goes my reputation...]
>
>conor rafferty == decwrl!glacier!conor == conor@su-glacier.arpa
>

But if you do, make sure you don't repeat DEC's mistake with VMS 4.1 (you
can crash the system by typing the wrong [or right, if you are a hacker :-)]
gibberish at it).  Make it BULLETPROOF.
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|       dan levy | yvel nad      |  my own and are not at all those of my em-
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| at&t computer systems division |  upon which I may hack.
|        skokie, illinois        |
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