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From: Mats Peterson <mats@snowbee.dyns.cx>
Subject: Re: bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab
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The following reply was made to PR bin/56325; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mats Peterson <mats@snowbee.dyns.cx>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, yar@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, mats@snowbee.dyns.cx
Subject: Re: bin/56325: Incorrect information in /etc/gettytab
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:12:56 +0200 (CEST)

 > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:14:29AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > > >
 > > > I believe that people use just np nowadays, so the question is
 > > > whether the old behaviour of parity flag combinations is worth
 > > > restoring.  How do you think?
 > > 
 > > Not having it is OK with me.  I used just np back when I wrote those
 > > lines in gettytab :-).
 >
 > As long as nobody has actually needed the old functionality in the
 > last 9 years, I'll just match the comment at the top of gettytab
 > with the harsh reality of the XXI century :-)
 >
 > -- 
 > Yar
 >
 
 It's still nice if it's there for a reason, though.  EVEN if most people
 use no parity nowadays.  I had to look at the source to find out why it
 didn't work as expected.  I guess not everyone is too keen on doing that...
 
 Mats