Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:33:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Subject: Re: termios'ed getty Message-ID: <199605102033.WAA25248@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605101349.IAA02313@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "May 10, 96 08:49:55 am"
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As Joe Greco wrote: > > So now the US$ 4.99 question: what do people think about completely > > ripping out support for the obsolete V7/oldBSD-style sgtty options in > > getty? Does anybody know somebody who's really using all these > > f0/f1/f2 flags in gettytab? > > Um. Um. (looks for a place to hide) Can I submit a plea of no contest? > > I've used them... eeeeccch, makes me wanna toss, mainly when I needed to > do something I could do no other way. Can't i convince to use the termios pendants instead? > I think printcap uses the sgtty options too, doesn't it (xc/xs/fc)? Already removed and replaced by an stty-style option list. (Now that gives me an idea: we should perhaps also kill the numerical termios options in getty, and replace them by the stty-style logic from lpd.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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