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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Keywords: echo tty device driver line discipline
Message-ID: <8425@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Sep 88 03:15:14 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4477@mtgzz.att.com> <371@polyof.UUCP> <8418@smoke.ARPA> <397@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <397@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
-In article <8418@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->In a UNIX implementation of deferred echo, presumably one would
->type ^R to check his most recent input line while there is still
->time to edit it (before typing a newline).
-Only if the UNIX implementation supports ^R.

Well, of course.  If it didn't already support ^R, one would add
that as part of the implementation.