Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
Message-ID: <1361@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Aug 88 14:31:47 GMT
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In article <5758@rpp386.UUCP>, jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
> In article <1342@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >	(2) Provide an emulation of ioctl() or sgtty().

> this is the best way to handle messy-dos that i've seen yet.  if
> it could be limited to the console it might even work ;-).

I believe Manx for MS-DOS does this, by having it use different system
calls depending on what the value of the ECHO flag is. It doesn't have
a complete emulation of struct termio, just a few flags.

I'd hate to try to get ksh running under Lightspeed. I hate to think
of what struct _iob looks like :->.
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