From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 10 13:40:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22050 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22037 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA17304; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:39:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04762; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:39:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA25248; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:33:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605102033.WAA25248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: termios'ed getty To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:33:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605101349.IAA02313@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "May 10, 96 08:49:55 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > > 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. Can't i convince to use the termios pendants instead? > I think printcap uses the sgtty options too, doesn't it (xc/xs/fc)? Already removed and replaced by an stty-style option list. (Now that gives me an idea: we should perhaps also kill the numerical termios options in getty, and replace them by the stty-style logic from lpd.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)