Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:56:56 -0500 From: "gerald stoller" <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> To: ahl@austclear.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty -echo Message-ID: <F14Jn1nzZ1pNHOLQ2lA0001587f@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tony Landells wrote
>
>I believe most of the newer shells (pretty much those that have >inline
>editing) turn off driver echo (basically do their own
>"stty -echo") and then work out for themselves based on what you
>type what should appear on the screen.
>
>Of course, it's hard to catch them at it because they reset the mode
>whenever you run another program, like "stty", for example.
>
>Try running /bin/sh and then see what happens when you type
>"stty -echo".
Tried it, it was just the same as the others. No effect from
"stty -echo". By the way, at work we use HP-UX and "stty -echo" works
there just I expected it should work, so it doesn't seem to be an
"understanding it' problem.
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