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Date:      Fri, 10 May 1996 08:49:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: termios'ed getty
Message-ID:  <199605101349.IAA02313@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605072129.XAA11587@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 7, 96 11:29:29 pm

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> Bruce reminded me of the ugliness of the V7/oldBSD <-> termios
> conversion code, and of our huge previous problems with the kernel
> equivalent of this.
> 
> So now the US$ 4.99 question: what do people think about completely
> ripping out support for the obsolete V7/oldBSD-style sgtty options in
> getty?  Does anybody know somebody who's really using all these
> f0/f1/f2 flags in gettytab?

Um.  Um.  (looks for a place to hide)  Can I submit a plea of no contest?

I've used them... eeeeccch, makes me wanna toss, mainly when I needed to
do something I could do no other way.

I think printcap uses the sgtty options too, doesn't it (xc/xs/fc)?

> If nobody objects within reasonable time, i consider removing all the
> compat cruft that's no longer needed.

Pleeeeeease!  :-)

... Joe

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