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From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu
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Subject: login gripes
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 09:50:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 09:50:29 1987
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Two puzzling things about 'login'. 
a) What on earth does it do between the time I hit return on the username line
   and the time it gives me back the Password prompt? Can't it turn echoing
   off right away so that when I am in a hurry the first few characters of
   my password don't end up on the screen?  Why do these characters get
   ignored? (This occurs on lightly loaded Vax 780 running Berkeley 4.2 and
   Sun 3 under 3.2).  Scream as you like against VMS, it does typeahead
   the way it ought to be done (i.e. the way I like it :-)
b) Any fundamental reason why true baud rate detection is not provided?
   Sure sounds like "lets cycle through speeds for now -- we'll fix that
   later"...

Jean-Francois Lamy                           lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSNet, UUCP)
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science,          lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN)
University of Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 1A4   lamy@ai.utoronto    (Bitnet)