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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: typeahead
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> One of my users pointed out that the programs we run on freebsd (pine, 
> tin, trn etc) dont behave as they do under sco in one basic respect.
> 
> There seems to be in sco a typeahead buffner, and not on the freebsd.

This is a bug in SCO's termio/termios implementation.  You aren't
supposed to be able to type-ahead in raw mode. :(


Nate