Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!think!compass!worley From: think!compass!worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Difference between running via pipes and ptys Message-ID: <8903231437.AA11962@galaxy.compass.com> Date: 23 Mar 89 14:37:54 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 7 Another difference is that "special" characters (C-d, C-z, C-c, etc.) passed through a pty do the control operation to the process on the other side (unless suppressed by some appropriate terminal mode), whereas through a pipe they are just characters. Dale Worley, Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com The War on Drugs -- Prohibition for the '80s.