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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:57:51 -0400
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Studded" <Studded@gorean.org>
Cc:        "bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: No terminal echo after certain commands
Message-ID:  <199810202258.SAA25216@laker.net>

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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:53:13 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:

>No program should leave the console partially or completely disabled,
>no matter how it exits. Sounds like this is a bug in "more"!

Actually, Control-C is used by a user who specifically wants to exit
RIGHT NOW (emergency exit) with a very short path thru any code that
could hang.  It is NOT meant as a non-emergency exit signal.

In short, Studded is right, you are not.
Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.



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