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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: More on 7/8 bits at login
Message-ID: <10564@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:23:05 GMT
References: <130@tree.UUCP> <384@auspex.UUCP>
Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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	"If you set all your terminals, including dial-ups if any, to 8
	bits + no parity, there shouldn't be a problem - unless other
	computers dialing in (e.g., for UUCP) are sending with parity
	enabled, in which case they may have trouble logging in.
	("getty" strips the 8th bit itself, but "getpass", used by
	"login", doesn't.)"

But by the time login is running, you're not in raw mode any longer.
Or was this "fixed" in system V?

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!tekecs!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com@relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]