Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Message-ID: <411@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 18:52:48 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <225800106@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <310@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <310@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:

>And many terminals are incapable of transmitting characters as they
>are typed.

I don't know about what terminals you are using, but most (if not all)
serial terminals ARE capable of transmitting characters as they are
typed.  In fact, as far as I know the normal mode for most terminals
since they have to be put into a block mode to hold characters before
transmitting.


JB


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