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From: pja@ralph.UUCP (Pete Alleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Character echo at read time
Message-ID: <345@ralph.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 02:34:56 GMT
References: <1059@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <8458@smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: pja@ralph.UUCP (Pete Alleman)
Organization: Home Sweet Home, Lafayette, LA
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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.  How does one

>I don't know of any UNIX implementation that provides such a feature,
>although it is doable and I've often wished I had it (its utility is

Venix/11 from VenturCom has this feature (^E flushes the input
buffer). It's nice to have, but I don't really miss it that much
when I use other versions of unix.  

I guess one need not flush the entire buffer very often when he
can see what he is typing :->

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Pete Alleman
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