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From: d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: Unix Type-ahead problem
Message-ID: <41@harald.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 11:48:31 GMT
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andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:

>You could always do a CTRL R to refresh your command line when the
>prompt finally appears. Although I'm a confirmed UNIX fan, this is one
>of the features that I like in the VMS ennvironment. Now don't let's
>start another UNIX/VMS war :-)

>I guess it's the tty driver that's to blame, rather than the Shell.

I, like several others, actually prefers to see what we're typing. In fact,
a couple of years ago when I was working on a PDP-11 running RT-11 with
Modula 2 on it, I went in and modified the Modula systems tty-driver just
to get that feature. That's the nice thing about having sources :-)
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