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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state)
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 09:04:17 GMT
Message-ID: <C86zv6.AMs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su>
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In article <eLshE4iGSD@astral.msk.su> ache@astral.msk.su writes:
> It is strong problem with clean 8-bit environment:
> many programs (stty [sane mode], getty, etc.) will reset
> terminal state to "default" value, but this value is dependent
> on your 7-bit or 8-bit code table.

Other than stty and getty/login (which should interpret "SANE" as
something system or user specific (say, /etc/default-stty or $STTY)
everything should set all modes back the way they found them.

Not that it DOES, of course, but it should.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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