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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Botched typeahead
Message-ID: <5737@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 00:52:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  9 00:52:50 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: typehead

If anyone plans to implement deferred echo of type-ahead, please
be sure to include the ability to force an echo of what one has
typed ahead before it gets read.  The DEC-style ^R (reprint input)
found on systems like 4.nBSD seems ideal for this.