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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Specifying tty delimiter characters
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Date: 12 May 88 17:50:07 GMT
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   wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>) wrote:
   > One feature I've wished was available in a TTY driver is the ability to
   > specify a bunch of characters (e.g. control characters), and tell it
   > to "read until N input characters or a special character".

Why don't you just write a wrapper function to do this?

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
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