Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 02:09:23 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: root@buffnet.net, nate@sri.MT.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: typeahead Message-ID: <199603120809.CAA13117@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <199603102059.NAA09654@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 10, 96 01:59:39 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > One of my users pointed out that the programs we run on freebsd (pine, > > > > tin, trn etc) dont behave as they do under sco in one basic respect. > > > > > > > > There seems to be in sco a typeahead buffner, and not on the freebsd. > > > > > > This is a bug in SCO's termio/termios implementation. You aren't > > > supposed to be able to type-ahead in raw mode. :( > > > > I keeping finding 'bugs' in my sco implementation though that I wish I > > could introduce to freebsd! :) Oh well. Thank you. > > If you want type-ahead, modify trn to not use raw mode. Type-ahead was > specifically designed out of trn for a purpose. If you like type-ahead, > redesign these programs to not use raw mode. There is a command line switch to tell trn to not throw type-ahead out. I use it at home... > > > Nate > > Gary
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603120809.CAA13117>