Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!mcl!stacy
From: stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix deficiencies/problems (immediate character echoing)
Summary: read isn't supposed to write!
Message-ID: <134@mcl.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 19:22:53 GMT
References: <810038@hpsemc.HP.COM> <810046@hpsemc.HP.COM> <159@dg.dg.com> <2930@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: Millions Computing Ltd.,Regina, SK, Canada
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In article <2930@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:

> After all, applications don't directly grab characters; if they're
> going through some common point, you could do echoing there.  (Right?)

You want read(2) to write? :-)

> | Anton Rang (grad student) | "VMS Forever!"
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
At least we know your article is an unbiased oppinion.

-stacy

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S. L. Millions            Millions Computing Ltd.            tmsoft!mcl!stacy