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From: paul@vixie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two process communication programs
Message-ID: <655@vixie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 17:24:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: vixie.655
Posted: Thu Jun 11 17:24:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 09:52:57 EDT
References: <651@vixie.UUCP> <140@fesk.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco
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In article <140@fesk.UUCP> sverre@fesk.UUCP (Sverre Froyen) writes:
#in article <651@vixie.UUCP>, paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) says:
#> ...  I was sufficiently disgusted with the ^A and ^P
#> behaviour that I hacked tip to have two new variables:
#Isn't this an overkill. A .tiprc file containing the two lines
#	force=
#	raisechar=
#has the same effect.

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that.  I would probably have done it that way,
since adding variables to TIP is kind of a pain in the posterior.  Having
done it, though, I can see an advantage to having it in the /etc/remote
file, since I can put :nf:nr: into the entry that all the other entries
:tc=: to, and have ^A/^P totally gone from my TIP.  A bonus if I want to
be able to run TIP from a customer's logon, or from root, or from some-
where else that I've forgotten (or never had reason) to give a .tiprc.

The real issues for me are: (1) why was ^A/^P added at all?  It's useless!
(2) should I post the diffs?  (3) can I post the whole thing?
-- 
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