Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:16:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, "Studded" <Studded@gorean.org> Cc: "bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: No terminal echo after certain commands Message-ID: <4.1.19981020181535.06ad01a0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199810202258.SAA25216@laker.net>
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Well, if you really had an emergency, you'd CERTAINLY want your terminal to work! I do not think that anyone would consider this optional. --Brett At 06:57 PM 10/20/98 -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote: >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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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