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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tset (BSD?)
Message-ID: <7774@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 27 Apr 88 15:44:01 GMT
References: <8776@sol.ARPA> <4493@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4493@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Maybe with streams tty drivers even we binary customers will be able
>to write a little module that will support a second erase character
>and push it onto the stream...

Although streams are good for a lot of transformations like this,
I suspect it would be pretty hard to have a module snatch back data
that it has already passed downstream.  I would think the whole
input canonicalization module would have to be replaced.