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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: getty(8)
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In article <199508030704.JAA13843@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch  <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>What about a rewrite?  How to add the missing functionality?  I'd
>personally prefer to have something using the same keywords as stty(1)
>instead of this unmemorizable two-letter abbreviations (perhaps with
>an option to getty to recognize the old format as well as a more
>rationale new one).

Opinion:

You could do worse than to simply clone the System V format. Yes, it's
System V... but it is something that people are familiar with. That's
got to be worth something...