From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 12:56:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f14.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBE137B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerald_stoller@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:56:57 -0800 Received: from 12.20.190.1 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:56:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.20.190.1] From: "gerald stoller" To: ahl@austclear.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty -echo Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:56:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Feb 2001 20:56:57.0112 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7D9C980:01C0A036] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message