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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard bindings
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960417172328.2439J-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960417193347.638B-100000@boner.mrami.com>

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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Marc Ramirez wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Marc Ramirez wrote:
> > 
> > 	Thanks Marc!  That worked... What else does stty discard undef do 
> > since I looked in the man pages for stty but notheing about it..
> 
> Hmm, that's a good question... :)  From a perusal of the source, it looks 
> like the discard character causes the tty to dump (flush) all output in 
> the buffer and all subsequent output on the floor (like ^O in VMS) until 
> you hit another key (unlike VMS).

	Hmmm, so is ^O the only discard character?  Also, do you mean that
you can just hit ^O and then another key and ^O will work correctly?

> What I want is a key to discard _input_ (too fast with that return key, I 
> am). Or even better, discard the last newline... must look at source...

	Hmmm, what is discard anyways?

Richard




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