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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Botched typeahead (was login gripes)
Message-ID: <891@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 11:55:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 11:55:54 1987
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Keywords: typehead

In article <8703231450.AA18626@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.toronto.edu writes:
>
>                  ... Scream as you like against VMS, it does typeahead
>   the way it ought to be done (i.e. the way I like it :-)

I agree completely.  UNIX echoes typeahead incorrectly.  The correct way,
as implemented by TOPS-20 and VMS, is to echo typed input when a program
reads it, not when it's typed.

I really like most aspects of UNIX, but this is one case where VMS (and
TOPS-20) clearly win.  How about it, AT&T, can this be fixed in SVR4?
-- 
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