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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Botched typeahead (was login gripes)
Message-ID: <6193@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 23:14:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 23:14:13 1987
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: typehead

In article <891@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry
Campbell) writes:
>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.

This seems to be a matter of taste.  On a fast system, I like deferred
(VMS-style) echo.  On a slow system, I like immediate echo.  I want
both, so how about an `stty' option?

(99 blocks of crud in the kernel, 99 blocks of crud.  Put in a patch,
compile again, 100 blocks of crud in the kernel!  :-) )
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