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From: joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Need your opinion (TTYDEF 8-bit clean state)
Date: 11 Jun 1993 21:18:18 +0200
Organization: SaxNet, Dresden, Germany
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In article <C86zv6.AMs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Other than stty and getty/login (which should interpret "SANE" as
>something system or user specific (say, /etc/default-stty or $STTY)
A very nice idea:-) not only for Russians.
>everything should set all modes back the way they found them.
>
>Not that it DOES, of course, but it should.
After someone (Felix Gaethgens, if i remember well) complained about
the 8-bit sillyness, i've just had a look into the related code
that time. All i found it's terribly. Kinda spagghetti, i know,
each switch between raw and cooked mode causes the mode being reset
to 7 bit, but there wasn't an obvious reason *why* this occurred.
The code emulating the old tty mode (tt-compat, sgtty()) is horribly
broken, but most older BSD applications use it (including curses).
Best would be a total rewrite from scratch:-), from some spec's
regarding the new termios interface. Btw., does you American folks
*really* need 7-bit mode? Even the simplest uucp connection requires
an 8-bit clean interface...
J"org
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