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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Streams TTY driver (was: echoing sytle - DOS,VMS vs. Unix)
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Date: 8 Sep 88 15:43:49 GMT
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In article <66898@sun.uucp>, guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

> > I thought SVR3.1 or perhaps SVR3.2 had finished the conversion of the
> > character I/O system to use STREAMS.
> Nope, at least not in the S5R3.2 code we have, and definitely not in S5R3.1.

Well, the first release of the STREAMS-based tty driver was in JAE 2.0
(Japanese Application Environment), which is SVR3 with support for
multi-byte characters.

Check you Summer '87 Usenix Proceedings, page 323 "A UNIX(R) System V
STREAMS TTY Implementation for Multiple Language Processing".
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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