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From: brucee@runx.ips.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Request for help concerning termcap entry
Message-ID: <1774@runx.ips.oz>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:42:47 GMT
References: <1448@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: brucee@runx.OZ (Bruce Evans)
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Andy Tanenbaum writes:

>ELLE is interested in the following items:
>[long list]

Elle also uses "am" (auto-wrap margin) and goes crazy without it if TTY is
doing it (#define LINEWRAP for 1.3c TTY which appears not to be the
default). I want auto-wrap for the sh but in elle it wastes column 78 as
well as 79. Since an unduly large number of diffs have involved editing
out white space, presumably to keep elle happy, something needs to be
done. I think "am" and lots of other terminal capabilities should be in
ioctl(). (Real terminals usually have some hardware to fiddle with :-)).
However, ioctl() is mis-implemented. It goes to a lot of trouble to
pack everything into a message when it should be just passing a pointer
to an open-ended structure and letting the device driver copy it.

Bruce Evans
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