From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 14:22:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF5837B503 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA99638; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:22:25 +1100 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26582; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:22:25 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200102212222.JAA26582@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "gerald stoller" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stty -echo In-Reply-To: Message from "gerald stoller" of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:55:31 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:22:25 +1100 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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". Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message