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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com>
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Subject: Re: Keyboard bindings
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Marc Ramirez wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > 	Hmmm, so is ^O the only discard character? 
> 
> No, you use the stty program to set the discard character (or any other 
> special control characters for that matter).  For instance, 
> 
> $ stty discard ^a
> 
> sets the discard character to Control-A,
> 
> $ stty discard ^o
> 
> sets it to Control-O,
> 
> $ stty discard 7
> 
> sets it to '7', and
> 
> $ stty discard undef
> 
> undefines it (after which there is no discard key).  To see what other
> control characters you can set, do 'stty -a' and look under the "cchars:"
> section. 
> 
> > Also, do you mean that
> > you can just hit ^O and then another key and ^O will work correctly?
> 
> Well, you hit the discard key and it works correctly. :)  If you do the 
> 'stty discard undef', there is no discard key.
> 
> > 	Hmmm, what is discard anyways?
> 
> I think at this point you'll just have to play with it to get a feel for 
> it. :)  I can also suggest the stty(1) and termios(4) man pages for terse 
> but fairly complete explanations of what is going on.

	I just read the termios man page but what do they mean by 
flushing the terminal output?

Richard