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From: scs@athena.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
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Date: 16 Sep 88 02:58:32 GMT
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In article <8458@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <1059@nmtsun.nmt.edu> warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes:
>>With VMS you can do a ^X anytime the terminal is
>>not in "raw" mode and clear the current type ahead buffer.
>I don't know of any UNIX implementation that provides such a feature...

Well, early versions of pdp11 Venix used control-E for this
purpose.  I haven't noticed (or missed) it recently...

                                            Steve Summit