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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: autowrap
Message-ID: <3866@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 23:00:43 GMT
References: <3861@bsu-cs.UUCP> <460@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <460@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> jherr@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Jack
Herrington) explains why autowrap in the terminal driver may interfere
with specific applications.

For this reason autowrap, like most of the other things one sets with
stty, should be switchable.  A hypothetical 4.4BSD example:

   stty autowrap:yes parity:none columns:80 echo:delayed histedit:vi
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi