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From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: EMACS 18.51 with PTY's on a System V.2 machine
Summary: A bug in Jens-Uwe Mager's pty driver
Message-ID: <6013@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 89 22:40:24 GMT
References: <196@isncr.is.uu.no>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 25

In article <196@isncr.is.uu.no> ra@is.uu.no (Robert Andersson) writes:
>I just resently got hold of a pty driver for this machine (it is not
>included in the standard OS :-(. For identification, the driver starts
>with the following lines of code:
>/*
> * pty.c - Berkeley style pseudo tty driver for system V
> *
> * Copyright (c) 1987, Jens-Uwe Mager, FOCUS Computer GmbH
> * Not derived from licensed software.
 [ ... ]
>Whenever a process terminates EMACS does not pick up and display the last 
>10-30 bytes output by the process through the pty.

That is a bug in that particular driver.  I fixed the bug, but I started
from a radically hacked version of that driver.  I can send the whole
driver source with the fix to anyone who wants it.  Among other changes,
the version I have was modified to work as a loadable driver on the AT&T
Unix PC.  It still works on "normal" SysV's as well.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!kenobi!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com