Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:20:27 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@ics.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stty -- not Message-ID: <31A403AB.3523@ics.com> References: <199605230610.AAA07190@rover.village.org>
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> : #ifdef ASIDE > : Given that the handbook shows use of hex numbers, is there a > : chance that historical usage allowed hex numbers, and any mods > : should continue to allow hex numbers? Or was the handbook just > : plain wrong? > : #endif /* ASIDE */ > > You know, you could fix the bug in the handbook by posting patched (or > send-pr'ing them) that allows this to work. Or you could pull a > Tom and bet me that I couldn't do it by midnight.... :-) Not sure if that was to me or Sean :-) I figure before I go mucking with anything, I want to know how it's supposed to work. You lost the bet already by my clock :-) > : If not, is the only way to get back to "normal" to reboot? > > I'm not sure that it is relevant to these problems, but NetBSD and > OpenBSD had some fixes go in in the last couple of months to lpd that > fixed a problem with setting and clearing bits of some sort. Has > FreeBSD picked them up? A quick cvs log doesn't help :-(. A quick > diff shows there to be some changes in this area between FreeBSD and > NetBSD (at least between -stable and the latest sup I have from > NetBSD). Something about the xc or xs being busted, but I can't > recall now the details. Maybe that's the problem???? As nearly as I can figure out, the bits we're talking about should be in the fc / fs set. But since I can't get them to work under any conditions, and noone has indicated they are broken in 2.1 which is what I'm running, I'm stumped. I assumed (silly me) that surely someone out there was running an old serial character printer, and would have a definitive answer. -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)
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